I'm Christiaan. With an 11+ year track record at CM.com and Palantir Foundry, I build software that is fast, flawless, and maximally scalable. For a fixed price upfront, with no surprises afterward.
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AI built into how your system thinks and operates — not bolted on afterward.
11+ years at CM.com, Palantir Foundry and enterprise environments that don't forgive mistakes.
The problem
Your team is shipping features. But the underlying structure is accumulating complexity faster than it's delivering value. You're paying by the hour for problems you didn't sign up for — and the longer it continues, the harder your system becomes to change.
This isn't a people problem. It's a structure problem.
The approach
Before any code is written, we agree on exactly what success looks like. That's what I deliver.
One number. One outcome. Agreed upfront. No invoice surprises, no time-tracking, no scope creep that costs you more.
I don't bolt AI on afterward — it's built into how your system thinks and operates. Designed in from day one, not added as an afterthought.
Every decision is justified from the ground up. No borrowed patterns from a different problem. No unnecessary complexity. Only what your system actually needs.
The Thinking Layer
Most AI adoption is cosmetic — a chatbot here, a co-pilot there. That's not what I do. I run multiple AI systems as one coordinated team, each directed at the task it handles best.
The result: delivery speed a traditional team can't match, and quality that doesn't drop as the pace increases. The AI scales. The expertise steers.
This is what makes it possible to deliver, as one person, what would otherwise require an entire agency.
How I work
I don't write code anymore. I design the system — defining how it should behave, where it draws its boundaries, and what rules it must never break — and then direct multiple AI systems to build it with precision.
My 11 years of enterprise engineering aren't there to write the code. They're there to know exactly what to ask for, recognise what's wrong, and push until it's right. Regardless of the tech stack.
You don't get a developer. You get a senior architect, technical lead, and delivery team — in one engagement, at a fixed price, with no coordination overhead.
Track record
Backend API infrastructure for the iDEAL QR payment protocol — officially certified by Currence. Rolled out to millions of Dutch consumers.
Platform ontology, security governance, and resource curation inside Palantir Foundry — one of the most complex enterprise data environments in the world.
Co-architected the public infrastructure registry system for the city of Amsterdam. Government-grade infrastructure at enterprise scale.
Also worked at Fingerspitz (marketing automation, Dasbot.io), NOBEARS (e-learning platform SHO Horeca), Mirzacles (enterprise Laravel refactoring), and several other environments. 11+ years verifiable track record. I build the systems myself.
Who I am
Systems architect and software engineer, working between the Netherlands and the UK. I've been building software since 2015 and never stopped thinking about how to do it better.
Axial Alpha is my practice. Every engagement is a fixed-price outcome. Every system I design is built to last, to scale, and to think.
Tell me what you're building. If it's something I can help with, we'll work out exactly what that looks like — and what it costs — before anything else happens.
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