Summary
Henk-jan Meijer is a seasoned technical lead and co-founder with 12 years of experience designing and shipping reactive microservices and data delivery platforms. Based in Amsterdam, he specializes in building resilient distributed systems using Go, Scala, Apache Kafka and Docker, turning complex integration challenges into scalable production services. His career progressed from full‑stack development to senior engineering roles at Portavita and now entrepreneurship at Cargoplot, reflecting a blend of hands‑on coding and product-driven architecture. With an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and early research experience running eye‑tracking experiments, he brings a data‑informed, experimental mindset to system design and operational reliability.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Artificial Intelligence, MSc, Artificial Intelligence at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)