About me
Juliette van der Laarse is an engineering leader, systems thinker, and O'Reilly author specializing in capability architecture and engineering enablement. She is a Senior Engineering Manager at the largest online retail and e-commerce platform in the Netherlands and Belgium. Previously, she led a cluster of Engineering Platforms and Enablement teams at a major international financial services company.
She is the creator of the AI Flower, a public capability architecture for AI-native engineering, introduced on O'Reilly Radar and presented at DevWorld 2026. The framework codifies IT activities, their definitions of excellence, and their dependencies into an open, tool-agnostic foundation for human and AI-executed work, built deliberately modular and concrete, so that every activity, quality bar, and dependency is a specific, contestable claim the community can challenge, refine, and improve. Juliette is establishing a foundation to bring the framework under open governance, and is actively inviting contributors worldwide to help validate and extend it.
She founded and chaired a company-wide Women in IT network of 250+ members, and was recognized by the European Parliament as a role model for girls in tech.
