Summary
Sophie Kruijt is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native architectures, security, and automation, with a decade of experience delivering scalable applications across healthcare, education, media, and aviation domains. She is currently at ForeFlight, applying her full-stack and cloud expertise to build reliable, secure software for aviation. Previously, as a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, she led Google Cloud–based security and container deployment strategies, implemented CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and improved cost visibility with Grafana and Loki. Her technical toolkit spans AWS and Google Cloud, Terraform, Docker, JavaScript, Python, Java, and CI/CD tooling like GitHub Actions and Jenkins, with a strong emphasis on compliance (NIST 800-53) and observability. Outside of work, she is a certified private pilot, bringing a practical, reliability-focused mindset to engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology Informatica, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology Informatica at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch