Personal info
Name: Jeroen Dee
Born: 26-07-1980
Residence: Amsterdam
Professional objective
Support people and organisations in the adoption of Ai Driven Development while at the same time building a culture of quality.
Professional values
- People before technology
- Simplicity over complexity
- Discipline grows quality
- Enthusiasm drives engagement
Professional summary
I've been working in different quality engineering roles since 2007. I have an above average interest in all things related to the software development process. This ranges from the pure technical aspects to the more sociological aspects of people working together in building a product.
In 2021 I started my own company: Quality Shepherd
In 2025 I pivoted my role towards: Ai Shepherd.
Professional experience
In order to keep this cv concise, below is an enumeration of my most important stories of the last 10 years.
Quality Shepherd / Ai Shepherd (via Quality Shepherd) Ahold (Zaandam / remote) apr 2024 - now
- Ai Driven Development advocate
- Quality advocate
- Building the best Retail Media platform in the world.
- Embed AI possibilities. In a productivity boosting manner, as wel as on a proposition level.
- Improving the broader culture of quality.
- Pushed for rethinking of industry "standards" like Scrum etc.
- Pushed for a mindset on creating sustainable software. Amongst others created awareness for transferability of knowledge.
- When needed, engineer solutions. I prefer to use Go.
Senior Quality Engineer (via Quality Shepherd) Justice Department (Almelo / remote) jul 2023 - mrt 2024
- Mostly support the teams with building test automation (TypeScript / Java).
- Improve the quality process.
- Support the teams in expanding their micro-services (Rancher / k8s).
Senior Quality Engineer (via Quality Shepherd) Nedap Healthcare (Groenlo / remote) jan 2021 - jul 2023
Summary: By way of experiment I was asked to be the sole QA in a company of approx 200 developers. I was first part of a more transient team. Later I got a broader company role, in order to increase the quality awareness.
- I've contributed towards the implementation of diverse projects for some of the biggest mental health organizations in the country (monolithic JVM)
- After the experimental phase, I established/introduced a QA guild, and have hired the first QA's for the company.
- I've pushed for the adoption of a developer portal (backstage.io)
- I've worked together with the in-house ethical hacker to create security-first awareness and push for the generation of sboms (personally contributed for the Go applications of the company).
- I've pushed some of the learnings from Team Topologies, in order to try and find a more sustainable way of development.
- Performed maintenance on some of the in-house Go apps.
Senior Quality Engineer (via deTesters) RTL / Videoland (Hilversum / remote): Online video streaming platform jan 2020 - dec 2020
- Oversaw the quality process for some big business projects. One of which was the introduction of the subscription tiers (TypeScript / C#).
- During the pandemic / lock-down, supported the teams in keeping the video on demand platform running (Azure, k8s, micro-services).
Senior Quality Engineer deTesters (Utrecht / remote): test(automation) / quality engineering focussed consultancy 2019-2020
Summary: I was part of an incredible group of quality engineers. People who really care about their craft. Through deTesters I was deployed at different companies. See above for more details.
Lead Quality Engineer funda (Amsterdam): Primary real estate platform in The Netherlands (used by millions) 2012-2019
Summary: Worked my way up to Lead QA. Managed the QA's. Contributed to the transition from a monolithic architecture to a micro-services architecture, embracing the "new" multi-platform Microsoft.
- QA lead; Hiring QA manager, setting up and aligning QA OKR's. Central role in the QA strategy. I was part of the central platform team.
- Pushed for continuous quality improvement.
- Worked on the core platform (.NET/C#).
- Worked on splitting up the monolith towards micro-services (running on Apache Mesosphere).
- Setup test automation frameworks (.NET/C#).
- Was part of some truly exceptional teams.
Skills
I have a broader understanding of building a product (using Ai Driven Development), and how teams function. I can contribute in making both better, with an emphasis on quality.
Software development "things" I liked over the years
- Truly solving a problem through software.
- The sociology of software development as a whole.
- The synergy between discipline and delivered quality.
- Deadlines.
- Ai Driven Development (exploring/learning phase), Spec-Driven Development.
- Things that have a high developer experience like: the programming language Go.
- Things that are boring and thus aid in sustainable engineering like: the programming language Go.
- Lessons from Team Topologies.
- Goal driven teams (OKR's).
- People who are critical thinkers.
- Critical companies, that don't blatantly follow industry "standards" like Scrum (per Jira), but develop their own way of working.
- The "new" Microsoft .NET stack.
- Leveraging the different levels of testing.
- Security first.
- The command line interface.
- The concept of having a good developer portal when things start to scale.
- The writings of Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and Ron Jeffries to name a few.
Software development "things" I have used over the years
- Git as tool on (pick your platform: Github, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Gitlab).
- All the IDE's, pick one.
- CI / CD systems (Azure DevOps, Github Actions, Jenkins).
- JVM languages (Java / Kotlin).
- Docker / Kubernetes / Rancher / ArgoCD (GitOps).
- Scrum.
- API testing (Postman / HURL).
- Contract testing (Pact).
- BDD (Specflow / Cucumber).
- Test automation frameworks (Selenium Webdriver, Playwright, TestCafe).
- Unit testing frameworks (X/NUnit, Go/Deno/Bun build in testing tools, JUnit etc).
- Salesforce Sales Cloud.
Education
Master of Laws (IT & law) Radboud University (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) graduated 2007