Berend De Boer
CTO at Process Focus
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolBerend De Boer is a seasoned CTO and software engineer with 22 years delivering cloud-native, serverless and CI/CD-driven systems from greenfield products to large enterprise migrations. Based in Auckland, he combines hands-on engineering with leadership—mentoring teams, driving architecture on AWS, and reorganising monorepos and pipelines for faster delivery. His background spans full-stack development (Next.js, Elm, Drupal) and deep infrastructure work using AWS CDK and SST, with notable open-source contributions improving CDK security and CodeBuild/CodePipeline integrations. He has led government-grade projects and commercial platforms, consistently raising standards for deployability and operational security. Comfortable toggling between business rules in Java and AI-enhanced product features, he brings a pragmatic blend of legacy modernization and cutting-edge cloud engineering.
22 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Van Lodenstein CollegeMSc. Information Science, MSc. Information Science at Delft University of Technology
English, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (22)
aws-cdk10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
codebuild10
amazon-s310
typescript-types10
aws-s310
infrastructure-as-code10
typescripts10
s3-bucket10
mysql9
aws-codepipeline9
pipe9
pipeline9
macos6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-cdk
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 20 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Berend primarily contributed to improving the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) by addressing issues related to S3 and CodeBuild. Their work involved fixing permission issues, reducing access scopes, and clarifying documentation for integrating encrypted buckets. The contributions also include enhancing the CodePipeline integration by adding support for setting timeouts for CodeBuild steps. These changes focused on refining infrastructure as code and ensuring proper resource configuration and security.
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
aforemny/elm-mdc
May 2018 - Jan 2022
Elm port of the Material Components for the Web CSS/JS library
Contributions:14 releases, 700 commits, 287 PRs in 3 years 8 months
user-interfacecss-jsjs-librarymaterial-components-webmaterial-components
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