Gerbrand Van Dieyen is a pragmatic system designer and software engineer with 13+ years building end-to-end, high-throughput data platforms and transactional systems across cloud, bare-metal and hybrid environments. He blends hands-on coding in Scala, Python and Java with architectural leadership—designing ingestion pipelines, data warehouses (Snowflake/Databricks), and hosted data-science platforms while coaching teams as a teacher and tech lead. Comfortable from Kafka and Kubernetes to GDAL and DuckDB, he has deep experience turning unstructured spatial and ecological data into structured, analyzable formats and a recent practical focus on geographic information systems. Known for favoring functional programming, strong typing and tooling, he reduces complexity through clarity and explanation, making technical topics engaging for learners. His background spans startups, enterprise platforms and public sector work, including high-transaction consumer systems and regulated government projects. Based in North Holland, he combines freelance agility with institutional experience at organizations like Marktplaats, DHL and the Dutch tax authority.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Father
Master (dropped out) Software enginering, Master (dropped out) Software enginering at Utrecht University
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Gerbrand Van Dieyen - Systeemontwerper at Belastingdienst