Jacob Kiers
Software Security Lead at Visma | yuki
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJacob Kiers is a Software Security Lead based in Rotterdam with 15 years of experience modernizing development lifecycles and hardening application security across SaaS platforms. He has progressed from hands-on engineering—scaling single-server products to multi-server, API-driven systems—to leading security posture improvements, secret management, and external audits at Visma | Yuki. Known for introducing testing, CI/CD and refactors that materially reduced maintenance effort and increased scalability, he blends operational pragmatism with research-driven technology advocacy. Jacob’s background spans full lifecycle ownership, team growth, and cross-company integration workgroups, giving him both the tactical skills and the strategic voice to steward secure, maintainable platforms. An engineer at heart, he often pairs security initiatives with developer productivity improvements so security becomes an enabler rather than a bottleneck.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Wartburg College, DordrechtBSc, BSc at Hogeschool Rotterdam
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (115)
asterisk10
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operator10
charts10
linux10
credit-card10
helm10
kubernetes10
financial10
finance10
zend-framework10
asynchronous10
docker10
firefly10
php10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alphacomm/alpharpc
Nov 2013 - Feb 2016
AlphaRPC is an RPC daemon based on ZeroMQ that can be used to distribute workload over one or multiple servers.
Contributions:3 releases, 22 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 3 months
rpczeromq
jacobkiers/OAuth
Feb 2013 - Oct 2015
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 8 months
oauth2php-libraryphpoauth
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