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Kostas de Jong

Project Manager · Payments & Integrations

Friendly project manager with eight years of experience keeping teams aligned and projects on track. I turn messy plans into clear next steps and love bringing people together to ship work they are proud of.

Experience

01

Senior Project Manager

2022 – Present

Buckaroo

Lead the iDEAL and PSP integration programme across product, engineering and partner teams; ship faster releases with clearer scope and fewer surprises.

02

Project Manager

2019 – 2022

Buckaroo

Owned the merchant onboarding rebuild, reducing time-to-go-live by 40% and aligning sales, risk and engineering around one playbook.

03

Junior Project Coordinator

2017 – 2019

Buckaroo

Coordinated cross-team rollouts of new payment methods and supported the migration from legacy reporting to a unified merchant dashboard.

Skills

Project Planning Stakeholder Management Agile & Scrum Budgeting Team Leadership Risk Management

Languages

Dutch Native English Fluent German Professional French Conversational

Education

MSc Business Administration

Utrecht University

2013 – 2015

BSc Communication Science

University of Amsterdam

2010 – 2013

Hobbies

Football
Cooking
Hiking
Photography

Other experience

PM Playbook

Side project

A lightweight handbook of templates and rituals my teams reuse on every project.

Local Football Club

Volunteer

Coordinate scheduling and sponsorship for a 120-member amateur club.

Contact

kostas.dejong@example.com
+31 6 2345 6789
Utrecht, Netherlands
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kostasdejong
https://kostasdejong.nl