JP Bothma

Tech lead & creative technologist · AI agents & orchestration · Full-stack · Interactive 3D · Sustainability

Leiden, Netherlands · Open to EU & global engagements · linkedin.com/in/jp-bothma · jpbothma.com

Hands-on tech lead with 10+ years shipping products across sustainability, AI, FinTech, XR and IoT. I own products from first sketch to production: architecture, code, teams and delivery.

Experience

Tech Lead of Sustainability — Interfood Group

Mar 2024 — Now · Eindhoven, NL

I own sustainability technology for a global dairy trading group — shipping the products and AI automation that turn climate targets into day-to-day operations.

Shipped Interfarm, a live platform where customers and dairy suppliers plan, fund and track on-farm CO₂-reduction interventions together.
Building AI agents and orchestrated workflows that automate sustainability operations end to end, from data intake to customer reporting.
Set technical direction across R&D, Trade and Logistics; own architecture and delivery across several external engineering teams.
Turn regulatory and customer sustainability requirements into shipped, scalable product.

Interfarm · AI agents · Workflow automation · Azure · Data platforms · Team leadership

Senior Developer & Lead Innovation Specialist — PWXR

Jan 2023 — Mar 2024 · Rotterdam & The Hague, NL

Next-generation full-body gaming technology: immersive, real-time interactive experiences on web and native platforms.

Built an in-browser full-body-tracking game with React-Three-Fiber and TensorFlow.js — no installs, no wearables, just a webcam.
Shipped native titles in Unity3D (C#) and Unreal Engine (C++) for Windows and mobile VR.
Delivered the event- and content-management systems behind the product suite.
Introduced CI/CD pipelines for reliable, automated cross-platform releases.

React-Three-Fiber · TensorFlow.js · Unity3D · Unreal Engine · C# · C++ · VR

Tech Lead — FinTech Payment Platform — Talk360

Oct 2022 — Jan 2023 · Amsterdam, NL

Led an internationally distributed team building a payment platform that widens access to global communication.

Led a globally distributed remote team delivering the Talk360 payment platform for emerging markets.
Designed the backend API-aggregation layer in Node.js (MarbleJS), unifying multiple payment providers behind one interface.
Built the Vue.js frontend with a focus on accessible, low-friction payments.

Node.js · MarbleJS · Vue.js · Remote leadership · Payment systems

CTO — LIT Trading & WWA Trading

Mar 2021 — Oct 2022 · Dubai, UAE

Co-founded and ran the technology side of a FinTech venture: trading education, gamification and an automated algorithmic hedge fund.

Built quantitative trading systems in PineScript, MQL4/5, C++ and Python, integrating live data from multiple brokers and providers.
Launched Vaultron.io as a white-labelled education platform for scalable client deployments.

PineScript · MQL4/5 · C++ · Python · Algorithmic trading · Platform architecture

CTO & Founder — Vaultron.io

Feb 2021 — Oct 2022 · Dubai, UAE

An e-learning platform with studio-grade media encryption and a proprietary anti-piracy layer.

Designed and shipped studio-grade media encryption plus a proprietary anti-piracy layer.
Architected multi-tenant infrastructure serving educational organisations internationally.
Led the hands-on engineering team from concept to production.

Media encryption · DRM · Anti-piracy · Platform architecture · SaaS

Lead Developer & Co-Founder — Deuterium Studios

Oct 2019 — Apr 2021 · Remote

Co-founded a game studio building an infinite, multi-scale ARPG MMO on custom voxel technology and procedural world generation.

Built voxel and city-building technology for infinitely scalable in-game worlds.
Implemented procedural world generation with blend maps and custom shader tooling.
Designed the backend server architecture and built VFX with Unity VFX Graph.
Mentored the engineering team from prototype to playable builds.

Unity3D · C# · VFX Graph · Procedural generation · Network architecture

Executive Advisor, Solutions Architect & Developer — Independent consulting

Mar 2018 — Feb 2021 · Various

Strategic advisor and hands-on developer for start-ups in banking, food services, IoT, health and online retail.

Architected technology and business processes for banking, hedge-fund and financial operations.
Took IoT systems to production and built 3D data visualisation for industrial clients.
Delivered retail automation and algorithmic tooling with security designed in from the start.

Solutions architecture · IoT · 3D visualisation · Cybersecurity · Automation · DevOps

Full-Stack Engineer & Innovation Specialist — IoT.nxt

Sep 2016 — Mar 2018 · Pretoria, ZA

Built the company's core IoT data-visualisation platform and led a skunkworks division prototyping AR/VR and robotics.

Built Commander Web, the company's main IoT data-visualisation product, in Angular, C# and .NET Core.
Led the innovation division: AR/VR prototypes on HoloLens and HTC Vive, LiDAR scanning and robotics.
Created live 3D representations of IoT data for the next-generation product interface.
Prototyped IoT-driven robotic arms with self-taught inverse kinematics and facial recognition.

Angular · C# · .NET Core · AR/VR · HoloLens · Unity3D · LiDAR · Robotics

Education

BSc Computer Science, cum laude — Pearson Institute, South Africa (2014 — 2016)

Skills

AI & automation: AI agents, LLM orchestration, Workflow automation, Custom models, AI integration
Engineering: TypeScript, React, Angular, Vue.js, Node.js, Python, C# / .NET, C++
Data & cloud: Azure, Databricks, Airflow, dbt, Data pipelines, Time-series analytics
Interactive & XR: WebGL, React-Three-Fiber, Unity3D, Unreal Engine, TensorFlow.js, AR / VR
Architecture: Solutions architecture, Microservices, API design, CI/CD, Cloud deployment
Leadership: Tech lead, CTO, Remote teams, Product strategy, Mentoring, Start-up advisory
Domains: Sustainability & ESG, FinTech & trading, Cybersecurity, IoT & embedded, EdTech & DRM

Open to collaboration

Always happy to talk about good work. If you're building something in AI, full-stack, interactive 3D or sustainability and think we'd work well together, in whatever shape that takes, I'd like to hear about it. Based in Leiden: on-site, hybrid or remote.