Summary
Arjen Singels is a DevOps engineer and full-stack Java developer with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently responsible for automation, infrastructure maintenance, and service availability on Kubernetes at Topicus. He progressed from graduate developer to team lead and back into hands-on engineering roles, delivering integrations between cloud platforms and legacy systems and modernizing financial services infrastructure. Comfortable across the stack, his background includes Spring Boot, Quarkus, Docker, and Kubernetes, and he has led BAU, release coordination, and DevSecOps initiatives. Based in North Brabant, Netherlands, he pairs an Honours in Computer Science from Stellenbosch with a pragmatic focus on production reliability and automation. Notably, his early work includes an Android AR internship project for underground utilities, reflecting a longstanding curiosity for applied, system-level engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Stellenberg High school
Honours, Computer Science, Honours, Computer Science at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
English, Afrikaans, Dutch