Hans Westerbeek
Senior Software Engineering Consultant at Booking.com
Netherlands
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Top SchoolHans Westerbeek is a Senior Software Engineering Consultant based in the Netherlands with 14 years of experience delivering mission-critical, maintainable systems across the full stack—from browser UIs to middleware, databases and messaging. He’s fluent in JVM ecosystems since 2003 and has a track record modernizing stacks, introducing CI/CD and observability, and scaling engineering practices in startups and enterprises alike. Roles ranging from interim CTO to tech lead at Beatgrid and engineer at Booking.com and DHL show he blends hands-on implementation (Kotlin, Scala, Java, Spring, Elasticsearch, AWS) with team mentoring and process improvement. Notably, he often pairs feature delivery with measurable operational gains—reducing deployment risk and improving developer productivity by focusing on DORA metrics and modern telemetry.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Mass Media Science, Mass Media Science at Radboud UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)Christelijk Lyceum Arnhem
Dutch, English, German, French
Stackoverflow
5,705reputation
539kreached
96answers
10questions
gradle
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authentication
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spring-security
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spring
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groovy
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java
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Github Skills (180)
spring-security10
opensaml10
ansible10
connections10
java10
spring-boot10
deployment-automation10
spring10
openconext10
idp10
springframework10
logback9
leiningen9
client-library9
pgdump9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OpenConext-Attic/OpenConext-teams
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:89 commits, 1 PR, 44 pushes in 4 months
hanswesterbeek/spock-intro
May 2012 - Jul 2014
Contributions:54 commits in 2 years 2 months
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