Bas Lijten
Principal Architect at Achmea
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBas Lijten is a Principal Architect at Achmea with over a decade of experience designing secure, high-traffic Microsoft-based web platforms using Sitecore, SharePoint and Azure. He built and governs the reference architecture, deployment strategies and security/access patterns that support millions of visitors across corporate and customer-facing sites. Beyond delivering portals and migrations since the MOSS 2007 era, he’s driven CI/CD adoption and authored the development and hosting guidelines used across his organization. He regularly evaluates emerging tech through collaboration with innovation teams and shares knowledge as a speaker and blogger. A hands-on engineer by background—his early C# vision and robotics work earned top marks—he combines pragmatic implementation skills with long-term architectural stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, VWO at AugustinianumBachelor of Information and Communication Technology, Information Technology, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology, Information Technology at Fontys Hogescholen
English, Dutch
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Github contributions (5)
BasLijten/helix-publishing-pipeline
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Unified publishing for Sitecore Helix solutions that extends existing Visual Studio and command line workflows
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
publishinghelixsitecore-helixworkflowssitecore
BasLijten/blog
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
my blog
Contributions:1 release, 66 PRs, 133 pushes in 3 years 11 months
my-blog
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