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Sven Jens

Chapter Lead Mortgages

ABN AMRO

People leadership in mortgages

15+ years in digital products

Story

Teams and delivery

I'm Chapter Lead Mortgages at ABN AMRO. Day to day that means hiring, coaching, and keeping the mortgages engineering chapter lined up with how the bank builds software. This site covers 15+ years of product work before that role, from startups through large platforms.

Skills

What I bring

Work I've done for real: ship platforms, grow teams, and put AI into product flows when the manual work actually dropped.

Technical leadership: Hire and coach engineers, set roadmap priorities, keep stakeholders honest about tradeoffs.
Architecture: White-label platforms, integrations, APIs and event-driven design that still make sense two years later.
AI & automation: Pick use cases with a clear payoff, wire LLM services into the product, keep quality gates in place.
Full-stack delivery: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Vue, Nuxt, Node.js, PHP/Symfony, GraphQL and REST.
Cloud & reliability: AWS, Google Cloud, CI/CD, observability, OWASP-minded security.
Product sense: Decide with data, respect UX, and know when speed costs more than it saves.

Journey

Work history

Chapter Lead Mortgages
ABN AMRO
2026 - presentNetherlands (hybrid)
- Hire, coach, and steer the mortgages engineering chapter so it stays aligned with group engineering practice.
- Keep delivery moving across mortgage domains and the teams that touch them.
Tech Lead / Lead Developer
CLIQ Digital
2022-2025Amsterdam (hybrid)
- Owned technical direction for a streaming platform serving 5M+ users across North America, LatAm, and Europe, with 99.95% uptime and about 60% faster content delivery.
- Grew the publishing team from 0 to 8 engineers, set hiring and delivery habits, and cut deploy time by about 80% with CI/CD.
- Pushed AI into real workflows: 15+ automation ideas reviewed, 8 features shipped to production, manual processing time down about 60%.
- Built a white-label platform that cut partner onboarding from 6 months to 2 weeks.
- Worked with product, marketing, and compliance. OWASP controls, monitoring, and Core Web Vitals above 90.
Full-Stack Developer
MyFreight
2022Amsterdam
- Built a logistics platform for 200+ freight forwarders and NVOCCs, handling $50M+ in monthly shipment value across air and ocean.
- Shipped supply-chain visibility with live tracking, document automation, and predictive signals. Manual coordination dropped about 70%.
- Ran multi-tenant SaaS for 15+ countries with local compliance, currencies, and white-label branding.
DevOps / Frontend Engineer
Gemeente Amsterdam
2019-2021Amsterdam
- Built a digital permits checker for 100,000+ applications a year, wired into the national DSO portal, with processing time down about 80%.
- Raised security and reliability: 90%+ unit test coverage, central logging, OWASP issues closed, A+ security rating.
- Delivered a white-label Vue kit so other municipalities could reuse the work, with content, legal, UX, and tech in one loop.
Developer
DEX
2018-2019Amsterdam
- Designed and shipped a catering expense stack end to end: mobile app, web dashboard, and payment gateway for €500K+ monthly volume.
- Owned the path from requirements through prototype to production at 99.9% uptime.
- Handled incidents, feature work, and client questions. Satisfaction stayed around 95%.

Work

A few outcomes

Three pieces of work that still matter to me. Two at CLIQ Digital, one at Gemeente Amsterdam.

CLIQ Digital

AI across the company

I ran AI from spotting useful jobs through to live features, with enough process that teams could ship without guessing on quality.

What changedEight AI features in production. Manual content processing time down about 60%.

Stack: OpenAI API, LangChain, Python, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, Docker

CLIQ Digital

Streaming under load

I owned the architecture for a multi-region streaming stack and the white-label kit partners used to go live when traffic spiked.

What changed5M+ users, 99.95% uptime, and new-region launch time cut from months to weeks.

Stack: Next.js, React, Node.js, AWS, GraphQL, Redis, PostgreSQL

Gemeente Amsterdam

Digital permits checker

I built a permits checker wired into the national DSO portal. Legal, content, and accessibility sat in the same delivery loop.

What changedPermit checks about 80% faster. Over 100,000 checks in year one.

Stack: Vue.js, PHP, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Docker, CI/CD

Contact

Say hello

Chapter Lead Mortgages at ABN AMRO. I'm not open for freelance, consulting, or a new role right now.

What's on this site is prior work for context.

Email: sven@sven-jens.nl
Phone: 06 2434 5626
Location: Haarlem (Randstad)