Summary
Rens Verhage is a software development engineer with 18 years of Java-focused experience across healthcare, government, and fintech. Based in London, he excels at leading and mentoring teams, turning complex business needs into simple, elegant solutions. His work spans modernizing IT landscapes to microservices (Quarkus, OpenShift, Tekton, ArgoCD) and building robust event-driven systems with Kafka, Neo4j, REST, and SOAP. He has a proven track record of improving legacy systems, integrating 30+ external systems, and driving security-conscious identity transitions (OIDC, Azure). A proactive communicator and occasional speaker, he presented at the We Are Developers World Congress 2024 and co-founded Arachneo Webdevelopment, highlighting his blend of delivery and thought leadership. Currently an SDE at AWS, he combines curiosity, practical engineering, and a passion for sharing knowledge with developers and teams.
11 years of coding experience
ir, Technische informatica, ir, Technische informatica at Universiteit Twente
Dutch, English, Russian