Summary
Gijs Sijpesteijn is a seasoned software engineer with nine years of focused experience and a long career history spanning finance, government, and policing sectors across the Netherlands. Currently at Rabobank and maintaining a long-term role at JPoint, he specializes in Java, Spring, cloud-native microservices and pragmatic Agile/DevOps practices, with hands-on experience bringing services into production. He has led teams as a lead engineer and scrum master, coached new hires, and shaped architectures for scalable, open-source-driven cloud environments used by national police and investigative services. Comfortable across the full delivery lifecycle, Gijs blends low-level engineering (from earlier SmallTalk/IVR work) with modern CI/CD and testing discipline to produce reliable systems. He pairs technical depth with strong user-focused consultation, repeatedly turning domain needs into practical, auditable software.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Ingenieur, Electronics, Ingenieur, Electronics at Rens & Rens HTS Electronica
HAVO, Beta, HAVO, Beta at Baarnsch Lyceum
English, German