Summary
Arjen Lentz is a seasoned Senior Technical Architect and security leader with over 16 years architecting resilient, open-source driven systems for enterprise education, government, and corporate clients. He combines hands-on skills in C, assembly, Go, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB and Linux with pragmatic InfoSec leadership—having served as CISO at Catalyst IT and now guiding secure SDLC and threat modeling at Ravinn. A long-time open source advocate and conference presenter, Arjen founded and exited a MySQL/MariaDB-focused consultancy and briefly served as interim CEO of the MariaDB Foundation, reflecting deep database expertise behind his security work. He also runs educational and mentoring ventures (OpenSTEM, Upstarta) and a mental-health tech initiative (BlueHackers.org), showing a commitment to community and humane leadership beyond pure technology.
16 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Amsterdams Lyceum
English, Dutch, German