Bart Veenstra
Director Technology Prototyping at Backbase
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBart Veenstra is a Director of Technology Prototyping with over a decade of experience turning complex banking and enterprise challenges into validated, production-ready prototypes and architectures. Based in Amsterdam, he blends hands-on expertise in cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes, Helm, PCF) and integration frameworks (Apache Camel, ESBs, Apigee) with a strong background in Java/JEE, Spring Boot, and front-end UX work. He has led DevOps and SDLC transformations for dozens of squads—creating CI/CD pipelines, automated quality gates, and environment provisioning from feature branches—to accelerate delivery at scale. Known as an agile evangelist and coach, he pairs rapid experimentation with stakeholder validation to ensure real product value. Less obvious: his roots in Smalltalk and search engine migrations inform a pragmatic, cost-conscious approach to replacing proprietary systems with open solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Science, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information Science, Software Engineering at Avans Hogeschool Den BoschMBO ICT4, Technical Information Science, MBO ICT4, Technical Information Science at Koning Willem 1 College
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (25)
maven-plugin10
swagger10
java10
project-reactor10
stream10
api10
rest10
raml10
maven10
backbase10
reactor10
openapi10
migrate10
spring9
accelerator9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Backbase/stream-mambu
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:11 commits in 2 months
Backbase/blade
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
The Backbase Local Application Development Environment (Blade) is a convenience plugin to run WAR files in an embedded Tomcat container.
Contributions:19 commits in 1 day
bladeconveniencebackbasetomcatbuilder
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