Summary
Arien Kock is an engineering manager and hands-on technologist with 11 years of experience leading architecture, SRE and engineering teams across Dutch enterprises and scale-up environments. He combines a strong Java and distributed-systems background with coaching and DevOps advocacy, driving practices like DDD, XP, automated deployments and clear architecture diagrams and glossaries. Known for putting “everything in version control,” he blends pragmatic engineering with people leadership—from training bootcamp cohorts to scaling platform teams. Based in The Hague, Arien moves smoothly between coding, consulting and management, and brings a craftsman’s eye for design and maintainability to production systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Twente
Dutch, English, Spanish