Forward Deployed Engineer at Anamata
I build ANNA, an AI assistant in Microsoft Teams, and make it work for the people who use it. Python, AI agents and MCP, on a Linux and DevOps foundation.
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| Drawn by | E. Hulsman | Location | Utrecht, NL |
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| Project | ANNA, Anamata | Since | 2025-12-18 |
| Drawing | Section A–A through one request | ||
A terminal is providedtype help
Section A–A
Someone in Teams asks ANNA how much leave they have left. They don't open another app. ANNA works out who they are through Entra ID, loads their profile, history and memories, and hands the question to Claude, which reaches Loket through an MCP connector.
The answer comes back up the same way and lands as one Teams message that updates while it's being written.
How many leave days do I have left?
ANNA Checked Loket for you. Here's your balance for this year, and what's already booked.
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ANNA works out who's asking through Entra ID, then loads their profile, history and memories. Memory, documents and connector access are scoped to that person.
Connector secrets are stored encrypted, and when a login is needed, ANNA keeps the token, not the user's chat.
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About 37,000 lines of Python: a service layer, a command registry and two Claude backends. One runs Claude Code as a subprocess and streams its output; the other calls the Anthropic API directly.
Teams is where people use ANNA. Slack is also being supported, with a working beta version currently under development.
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Loket for leave, ClockWise for hours, plus ANNA's own tools for memory, reminders and documents. Adding a system means registering a connector and granting access, not changing ANNA's core.
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The other half is working with the people who use it and looking after ANNA in production, from security to EU AI Act transparency. Health checks and a log analyser run alongside the bot, and tokens that are about to expire raise an alert before they break anything.
How many leave days do I have left?
ANNA Checked Loket for you. Here's your balance for this year, and what's already booked.
E. Hulsman, 2 m. Tall enough to oversee both the codebase and the room it's deployed in.
Two more things I built, each drawn at the point where it gets interesting. Not to scale.
A security-first agent on the Claude Agent SDK that turns infrastructure alerts into Signal conversations. Its default-deny toolset refused a live prompt-injection payload, and it replays events exactly once across hard container kills.
A Discord bot that turns our bank exports into a monthly household budget. About 40 rules handle the predictable transactions, Claude handles the rest, and anything it isn't sure of is written flagged instead of guessed.
Smaller builds and side projects, each with a write-up.
Three servers and a workstation on a Tailscale mesh behind Cloudflare tunnels, with Prometheus, recursive DNS and nightly cross-device backups
Operating since Jun 2025
Terminal Bible reader in Rust, running in the browser on the same UI code
Online since Apr 2026
Self-hosted terminal chat in Rust: Tokio, a typed ndjson protocol, checked SQL
Started Aug 2024
A merged pull request to an open-source MCP server for Taiga
Merged Jan 2026
An OS-level sandbox around Claude Code: kernel isolation, a filtering egress proxy and a risk score per session
Released Feb 2026, now retired
Newest first, the way a drawing records its revisions.
Owns ANNA, Anamata's AI assistant in Microsoft Teams, end to end: Python, Claude and MCP, including connectors to the systems people already use. Staff request leave, log hours or search policy documents without switching apps. Also built the anamata.ai website and is laying the groundwork for rolling ANNA out to other companies.
Sole developer of an enterprise self-service portal (React, Node.js, Oracle) used by about 20 tenants across 80+ Pega environments, for pipelines through Azure DevOps, audit logging and ServiceNow ticketing. Incidents, upgrades and multi-tenant DTAP operations with Ansible and AWX.
Replaced a legacy VM-based setup, where 2.5 of 150 planned case types had shipped in four years, with four containerized DTAP environments on self-hosted Kubernetes. Built a React portal on Pega's DX API with a custom OIDC flow, and cut the case types from 150 to about 25.
Replaced a daily 10 to 15 minute manual health report across about 50 VMs with a Java and Playwright automation, delivered by CI/CD with Teams alerts. A Bash toolbox of scheduled scripts keeps storage from running out. Still on call for occasional work.
Joined Anamata as a Pega DevOps Engineer, still my title on paper. The bank, regulator and staffing company roles above are that work. Pega Certified System Architect and Business Architect, 2023.
Replaced plaintext passwords in documentation with a Python encryption tool on a secure remote VPS. Looked after client Synology NAS infrastructure.
Mathematics, physics, chemistry and economics.
| Languages | Python, Bash, Java, TypeScript, Rust |
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| AI and agents | AI deployment, AI agents, MCP, Claude, Claude Agent SDK |
| Infrastructure | Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloudflare |
| Frameworks | React, Astro |
| Methods | Tests first, specs, Scrum, DevOps, IaC, monitoring |
| Education | BSc Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2020 – 2023, GPA 8.0 |
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| Certified | Professional Scrum Master I, Pega CPSA 8.8 and CPBA 8.8 (2023), Cambridge Proficiency (2018) |
| Speaks | Dutch (native), English (fluent) |
The part of a drawing you read before building anything.
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