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NAME
Albert-Jan Nijburg — Founding Tech Lead
SYNOPSIS
ajp [--experience] [--projects] [--technologies] [--education]
DESCRIPTION
Founding Tech Lead at an AI-powered conveyancing firm.
25+ years building software across legal tech, healthcare,
and infrastructure — from IC to engineering management and back.
London / Swindon, UK
EXPERIENCE
Founding Tech Lead — Stealth
Jan 2026 — Present
· Building an AI-first startup from the ground up as one of the first technical hires.
[Python, Pydantic AI, Temporal, TypeScript]
Tech Lead — Orbital (Legal Tech)
May 2025 — Dec 2025
· Scaled the LLM agent platform to handle thousands of property transactions per week.
· Delivered key features to drive user adoption and accelerate new sales.
· Led a team of four engineers, setting technical direction and ensuring execution.
[React, Kubernetes, TypeScript, Python, Redis, Postgres]
Senior Product Engineer — Orbital Witness (Legal Tech)
Oct 2023 — May 2025
· Scaled an LLM Agent system from handling 10's of concurrent tasks to 10,000's.
· Grew automated test coverage from single digits to ~70%.
· Introduced feature flagging and trunk-based development, significantly lowering release incidents.
[Kubernetes, Python, Redis, Postgres]
Software Engineer — Batelle (Healthcare)
Jan 2023 — Oct 2023
· Built an early LLM-based chatbot to support users when sleep coaches were unavailable.
· Implemented a design system and component library.
· Developed a templating feature for course materials.
· Transitioned the team to trunk-based development with testing and feature flags.
[TypeScript, GCP, Python, Vue.js, Firebase]
Engineering Manager — Babylon (Healthcare)
Jun 2021 — Dec 2022
· Managed a team of 5 engineers building the assessment service.
· Navigated MDR medical device regulation for releases and documentation.
· Led a project to build an in-house questionnaire builder for doctors and product managers.
[React, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Postgres]
Senior Software Engineer — Babylon (Healthcare)
Mar 2019 — Jun 2021
· Built and maintained the health check product, localised and deployed to 17 regions from 4 environments.
[React, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Postgres]
Senior Software Engineer — Habyts Ltd
May 2018 — Mar 2019
· Built a cross-platform web application for parental device monitoring.
· Up-skilled coworkers in TypeScript and Angular.
[AngularJS, C#, Azure, Angular 8+]
Senior Software Engineer — Skimlinks
Mar 2017 — May 2018
· Built an ETL pipeline ingesting orders from over 40 different APIs, outperforming the prior system on both accuracy and speed.
[Docker, Kubernetes, Python, MySQL, Flask]
Software Engineer — Autotask Corporation
Nov 2015 — Mar 2017
· Worked on the remote monitoring and management client installed on over 6M devices across Windows, Mac, and Linux.
· Implemented the Windows patch management feature.
[C#, Xamarin, F#]
Software Engineer — Curit (Telemedicine)
Aug 2007 — Nov 2015
· Developed backend software for telemedicine solutions and disease management systems.
· Architected a remote patient monitoring system for chronic heart failure, used in a published clinical study.
[C#, Azure, F#, Ember]
PROJECTS
Current Status (2022)
Political news aggregation platform for WTF Just Happened Today. Surfaces the consensus top U.S. political stories from a cross-section of the news media ecosystem.
https://currentstatus.io
CPython (2017)
Small contributions to CPython's compiler and tokeniser.
https://github.com/python/cpython
Skulpt
Python-to-JavaScript compiler. Open source contributor.
https://github.com/skulpt/skulpt
Trinket (Jul 2015 — Jan 2023)
Long-running open source contribution alongside full-time roles.
TECHNOLOGIES
Languages & Frameworks
TypeScript, Python, C#, F#, React, Vue.js, Angular, FastAPI, Ember
Infrastructure & Cloud
Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, Firebase
Data
PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL
Domains
LLM Agents, Legal Tech, Healthcare, Telemedicine,
Team Leadership, Medical Devices (MDR)
EDUCATION
Computer Sciences — Open University (2000–2009)
LANGUAGES
English, Dutch
SEE ALSO
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