Gertjan Assies
Senior Site Reliability Software Engineer at Shell Recharge
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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SeniorGertjan Assies is a senior Site Reliability Software Engineer and hands-on tech leader based in Amsterdam, with over a decade of experience delivering scalable, cloud-native systems. He blends senior development chops with team leadership, having served as DevOps Team Lead and Technical/Product owner-capable agile practitioner, always ensuring features move safely into production. His core strengths span Scala, Java, and .Net, with practical forays into Elixir, Go, and Haskell; he champions functional programming and treats languages as tools to solve problems rather than dogma. He specializes in cloud-native AWS architectures, reactive distributed systems (Akka), microservices, and enterprise content/web applications, driving stability, security, and performance while automating the rest. At Shell Recharge and NewMotion, he led and executed initiatives to make infrastructure boring, reliable, and scalable, coding his way out of tricky situations. He brings a strong mix of engineering depth and pragmatic leadership, with a track record of turning complex requirements into robust production systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (160)
cdr10
akka-actors10
electric-vehicles10
freeswitch10
ocpp9
akka9
rabbitmq9
message-queue9
amqp9
label9
asdf9
rabbitmq-client9
dsl9
scala9
shell8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gertjana/smartmeter
Oct 2018 - Apr 2024
Nerves/Phoenix Application that can visualise data coming from your P1 smart meter
Contributions:10 PRs, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
smart-meterraspberry-pismartmetermeternerves
gertjana/medicate-zio
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Learning Scala 3 and ZIO
Contributions:1 review, 29 PRs, 99 pushes in 3 months
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