Jaap Woerds
Directeur Eigenaar at VodafoneZiggo
Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJaap Woerds is a seasoned software entrepreneur and engineer with 14 years of experience designing, building and operating resilient distributed systems, currently running Kappa Software Labs and freelancing as a data engineer at VodafoneZiggo. He has a strong background in Scala, functional programming and event-driven architectures, having led critical backend work for high-scale services at eBuddy, Treatwell and DHL. Jaap founded Lambda Lab Software to help teams modernize engineering practices with typed functional approaches, and has repeatedly delivered production-ready systems involving Kafka, Cassandra, Akka and AWS. He combines hands-on implementation with coaching and architecture leadership, and has a track record of turning research-grade projects (e.g., forensic video sync) into real-world solutions. Based in Almere, Netherlands, he pairs academic training in information sciences with practical, ops-aware engineering that emphasizes testability and fearless deployments.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Information Sciences, Master of Science, Information Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)VWO (pre-university education), mathematics , physics, chemistry, VWO (pre-university education), mathematics , physics, chemistry at marianum
Dutch, English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (118)
linux10
lag10
reactive9
scalaz9
azure9
testing9
messaging9
terraform9
e2e9
terraform-provider9
wait9
scalajs9
kafka-topic9
testing-library9
azure-resource-manager9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jaapterwoerds/jupyterWith
Aug 2021 - Feb 2024
declarative and reproducible Jupyter environments - powered by Nix
Contributions:50 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
nixosdeclarativejupyterlabreproduciblejupyter
jaapterwoerds/jfall-netty4
Nov 2013 - Aug 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
javascalablenetty
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