Summary
Erik Bakker is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Information Security Officer at Lunatech with 15 years of professional experience and nearly two decades shaping technical direction internally and with customers. He progressed from software engineer to CTO and now CISO, doubling company size twice while broadening expertise across JVM languages, Kotlin, DevOps and Big Data platforms. He spends half his time embedded with clients solving technical problems, coaching teams, and improving software development practices, combining hands-on engineering with strategic governance. At Lunatech he designs native processes and tools for information security and leads standards implementation projects, bringing practical, auditable approaches to risk management. With an M.Sc. in Physics from Utrecht University and a long history of running his own freelance company, he blends analytical rigor with entrepreneurial pragmatism. Colleagues know him for translating complex technical challenges into teachable improvements that uplift both code quality and team capability.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Physics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Physics at Utrecht University
Dutch, English, scala