Berend Wilkens
Lecturer at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBerend Wilkens is a senior software developer and lecturer with over a decade of hands-on experience in agile development, Scrum coaching, and software engineering across sectors including education, research, and finance. As a lecturer at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht since 2013, he translates enterprise-grade practices (Java/Python, SOA, Docker, CI/CD) into practical learning experiences that help students form self-organizing teams and solve real-world obstacles. His background as a lead developer and analyst at institutions like KNMI, TNO and ING gives him deep expertise in web services, metadata standards and complex system integration. Equally comfortable mentoring as an agile coach or diving into code, he emphasizes collaboration, continual improvement, and tooling that scales from classroom projects to production systems. An academic by training (PhD, Utrecht University), he brings a research-minded approach to teaching and problem solving that often surfaces pragmatic, less obvious improvements in team workflows and architecture.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at Utrecht University
English, German, Dutch, French
Github Skills (12)
spring-boot5
spring5
rest5
api5
rest-api4
webservice4
java4
soap3
backend3
angular2
mhealth2
frontend2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hu-ict/canvas_dashboard
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 114 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
tcif-v2iac1-15/soap-service
Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
Stap voor stap opzetten van een SOAP webservice, zie Wiki.
Contributions:5 releases, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
wikisoapwebservicesoap-webservice
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