Summary
Jaap 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