Summary
Hans Kruse is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years’ experience building search, logging and onboarding systems, currently focused on Spring Boot and Elasticsearch at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. He has deep hands-on experience with ELK, Java (including Java EE), Ansible and cloud serverless patterns from long-term work at ReadID and other firms, often balancing privacy-aware data mining with production reliability. Hans has a track record of improving legacy systems, introducing OData/web APIs and automating deployments, and he’s comfortable both coding core services and shaping observability solutions. He favors lean, deletion-first code ("every line deleted counts") and brings uncommon operational discipline—having designed ELK pipelines that intentionally avoid logging personal data. Based in Overijssel with an MSc in Computer Science from Universiteit Twente, he also collects mechanical keyboards.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ir. (Msc), Computer Science, Ir. (Msc), Computer Science at Universiteit Twente
English, German, Dutch