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Joel BassonJB

Joel Basson

Principal Engineer — AI, real-time & payments

€ 1.300/dag
Amsterdam, NL
15+ jaar

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Over Joel

I help teams take AI from proof-of-concept to dependable production — and architect the real-time data and payments infrastructure underneath it. That intersection is where I'm strongest: AI that has to survive real traffic, real money and real compliance constraints at the same time.

Principal Engineer with 15+ years building real-time, high-throughput systems where latency, money and reliability all matter at once. Most recently Principal Engineer at Super Group (SGHC), the listed iGaming group behind Betway and Spin (3,500+ staff across 17 countries), where I built a governed production agentic LLM assistant, a real-time intervention system across all Jumpman brands, and the group's custom data lake — and ran technical due diligence on acquisition targets.

What I help with:
• AI & LLM systems to production — agentic systems, RAG, evaluation, guardrails, cost and latency, tool design
• Real-time & streaming data architecture — high-throughput pipelines (Apache Flink, Athena, AWS) that stay fast and affordable at scale
• Payments & low-latency infrastructure — design and review where correctness and speed are non-negotiable
• Technical due diligence & fractional leadership — investor- and acquirer-side DD on AI and infrastructure; architecture and build-vs-buy decisions

Short, scoped advisory and fractional engagements — remote or Amsterdam-based.

Fluent English; reads and understands Dutch comfortably (working proficiency).
  • Engels

    Tweetalig / moedertaal

  • Nederlands

    Beperkte professionele capaciteit

Kan op locatie werken
Amsterdam (tot 50km)

Werkervaring

  • Pwnage eSports BV
    Co-Founder
    mei 2026 - Vandaag (2 maanden)
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Co-founder of GoBlam!, a skill-based competitive gaming platform, with a founding team across Amsterdam, Porto and Mallorca. Leading the technical build end to end — real-time competitive play, integrated payments, and full KYC/AML and age-verification compliance — applying a decade-plus of iGaming engineering and operational experience to a market that's finally ready for it.
    Payment Systems KYC
  • SG Ventures, part of Super Group (SGHC)
    Principal Engineer
    september 2019 - april 2026 (6 jaren en 7 maanden)
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Principal engineer and internal technical advisor across Super Group — the NYSE-listed iGaming group behind Betway and Spin (3,500+ staff, 17 countries). Built a production agentic analytics platform over the group data lake: an autonomous data-analyst agent in MS Teams (RAG, vector search, sandboxed Python, vision) that didn't just answer questions but ran scheduled reporting and live anomaly monitoring — e.g. flagging when deposits stalled for any business unit. Used by executive, finance, data-science and engineering teams; tightly governed given the sensitivity and regulatory exposure of the data. Also built a real-time intervention system processing live event data across all Jumpman brands, and designed the group's custom data lake and data-processing framework (Apache Flink, Amazon Athena, AWS). Ran technical due diligence, gap analysis and risk identification on acquisition targets, plus post-deal onboarding and scaling.
    RAG Agentic AI AI Consulting LLM Apache Flink
  • RedBlade Software
    Lead Developer
    augustus 2014 - april 2017 (2 jaren en 8 maanden)
    Cape Town, South Africa
    Led a team designing and building a real-time online financial-processing platform — low-latency transaction processing where correctness and speed were non-negotiable. Owned architecture and delivery end to end. An early foundation for the payments and real-time systems work I focus on today.
    Payment Systems Software Architecture

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Opleidingen

  • Bachelor's Degree
    University of Cape Town
    2004
    Bachelor's Degree

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