Wouter Steenbergen

This company has, up until then, performed manual outreach to over 250 countries to request tax data multiple times per year. The software created a dashboard product for current status information on all of those requests and a fully configurable, automated workflow, including reading incoming email, creating automated responses, and automatically processing terabytes of received information.

Some key characteristics:
• Is fully automatic and configurable.
• Provides real-time insight into current status.
• Automates previously manual (by email) data request workflows.
• Processes requests to 250 districts, multiple times per year.
• Handles several TB of data.

The product automatically reads thousands of documents, classifies them, and automatically extracts dates and other relevant case information. Documents come in through email, automated notifications, and public websites.

Some key statistics:
• Over 2,500 documents
• Fully configurable
• 100% automatic, with deep insight into processing status
• Saves over five hours of manual work per week

The Masters of Scale podcast is downloaded 20 million times per month and comes with a companion app that delivers the content in a course structure. The first version of the app was released in 2021. When I joined the project, the product was essentially a prototype with unappealing acquisition, retention, and conversion statistics.

As a de-facto CTO for the organization, I implemented a program of improvements to the UX and engineering practices and designed and delivered analytics processes and capabilities that helped the company significantly improve on all these measures. The project was primarily a mobile project, but I also managed some of their website projects and deliverables.

In 2012, The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg, revealed Harvard Medical School research showing that a food diary alone is enough to positively influence your health. Microsoft had a program for employees to develop mobile apps for their operating system, and so started Food Diary.

Five years and five million show that I have helped people live better, healthier lives while creating a sustainable business at the same time.

The application is still in development. It most recently integrated LLM-based technology to automatically enrich the product database. The work is available in many different languages.

The Refinery Inspection application is used for factory and oil rig inspections. It was initially developed for iOS, so I worked with the company to port the application to Xamarin Forms for use on multiple platforms. We also delivered several extensions and additional modules. Quality, stability, and ease of use were the priorities.

Implemented a production-quality version of a medical imaging application in Xamarin Forms for UWP, Android, and iOS.

The team working at this Toptal customer developed a proof of concept based on a website developed internally. When management approved the production quality implementation, they contracted with me to get it done. Part of the project involved getting the team up to speed on contemporary software design principles. The project was organized with scrum and with daily standups.

This greenfield development project involved creating an order form application for Windows desktops, laptops, iPads, and Android tablets. Some of the most interesting aspects include the following:

• A custom control for moving items into groups
• Automatic sync conflict resolution for users with multiple devices
• An XLS to configuration converter with an upload website with extensive validation
• Real-time and permissive business rule validation in the UI.