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Jesper Voorendt · Product Owner · AI & Platform Solutions

Bridging strategic product design and engineering. Building AI agents at DAS; previously platforms at Knab & Aegon.

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Experience

DAS

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Hybrid
Full-time · (Jul 2026 - Present · 5 mos)

PRODUCT OWNER

Jul 2026 - Present

Building AI solutions for our internal platform. Highlights: prompt management for users, and our first agent that handles administrative tasks, with people staying in control.

HOME RENOVATION PROJECT

Haarlem, Netherlands
Full-time · (Recent months)

HOMEOWNER & PROJECT MANAGER

Recent months

Working full-time on a complete renovation of my new home in Haarlem, managing all aspects of the project from planning to execution.

KNAB – VARIOUS ROLES

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
Full-time · (5 yrs 4 mos)

PRODUCT OWNER, APPIAN CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

Mar 2024 - Dec 2025 (1 yr 10 mos)

Formed a new team (Appian Center of Excellence) responsible for the platform maintenance, best practices and further feature development of shared business solutions.

SENIOR APPIAN ENGINEER

Dec 2022 - Feb 2024 (1 yr 3 mos)

Led the technical design and implementation of a scalable KYC onboarding solution. As a result we developed a flexible backend-as-a-service application for the native front-end of Knab.

APPIAN ENGINEER

Aug 2020 - Nov 2022 (2 yrs 4 mos)

Created and migrated various Appian applications to improve customer service for investment and savings products.

AEGON – YOUNG IT PROFESSIONAL

The Hague Area, Netherlands
Jan 2019 - Aug 2020 (1 yr 8 mos)

MULTIPLE ASSIGNMENTS

Jan 2019 - Aug 2020

Jan 2020: Project Lead for Jira Standardization and gathering insights about key initiatives within Knab to present to the board.

July 2019: As a temporary Product Owner I managed the backlog and communicated with stakeholders during the implementation of a new form building tool.

Jan 2019: I learned Appian and worked as a developer on a centralized messaging system for Aegon Netherlands.

ATLANTIT - OWNER

Owner
Sep 2015 - Aug 2018 (3 yrs)

OWNER

Sep 2015 - Aug 2018

Founded AtlantIT to focus on web app development assignments, and connecting companies with young IT professionals.

Vision: Empower recruitment by encouraging investments in IT education for scholars and students.

PILOTFISH - INTERN

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018

GRADUATION INTERNSHIP & INTERNSHIP

Aug 2017 - Nov 2018

Graduation Internship (6 mos): Researched alternative therapies for children with behavioral disorders, to design a new product. As a result, I designed and prototyped a wearable for children.

Internship (3 mos): Worked on various projects including voice control prototyping, website overhaul, and web app platform development in MeteorJS.

10,000FT – INTERN

Seattle, USA
March 2015 - August 2015 (4 mos)

INTERN

March 2015 - August 2015

Moving abroad for an internship at the design consultancy Artefact Group, which just launched a new SaaS product. My role was to do market research to find out the best next target markets.

Education

MSc. Strategic Product Design

Delft University of Technology
2016 - 2018
Field: Industrial Design

Bridging Programme TPM to IDE

Delft University of Technology
2016
Focus: Bridging programme from BSc. Technology, Policy and Management to MSc. Strategic Product Design

Computer Science Minor

Tokyo Institute of Technology
1 semester (2013 - 2014)

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Technical Policy and Management

Delft University of Technology
2011 - 2014
Activities and Societies: Website committee Curius, ELS, DSZ-Wave, LAGA

Contact

Jesper Voorendt

Personal Interests

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Triathlon

Winter triathlons and full distance triathlon

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Ice Speed Skating

Racing on ice at high speeds

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Building Apps & Websites

Creating digital experiences

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Renovation Work

Transforming spaces with my hands