Jacobjob Koster
Senior Software Engineer at ANWB
Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJacobjob Koster is a senior software engineer with six years of focused experience building cloud-native Java systems and improving CI/CD toolchains across AWS and GCP. He excels at modernizing legacy stacks, having led on-premise-to-cloud migrations, Java upgrades, and Gradle/toolchain improvements while keeping maintainability and long-term quality front of mind. Comfortable across backend, DevOps and security practices, he pairs hands-on coding (Java, Spring, Docker) with infrastructure work (CDK, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) to ship reliable systems. He prefers collaborative teams that iterate toward better solutions and has a track record of contributing to open source projects like the Frank!Framework. Notably, he balances pragmatic delivery with clean code and performance tuning—skills honed while optimizing high-volume systems such as pricing engines and large-scale scheduling platforms. Based in Zwolle, he also holds an AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification and a Master in Human-Computer Interaction, giving him a user-focused technical perspective.
6 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master Human Computer Interaction, Master Human Computer Interaction at University of TwenteComputerTechniek Computer Science, ComputerTechniek Computer Science at Saxion University of Applied SciencesHuman Media Interaction thesis project, Human Media Interaction thesis project at Simon Fraser University
English, Dutch
Github Skills (98)
json-schema10
low-code10
orientdb10
xml-configuration10
transactional10
frank10
faas10
validation10
jackson10
system-integration10
yaml10
json10
stateless10
java10
json-schema-validator10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dcsaorg/Conformance-Gateway
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
DCSA conformance framework and reference implementations
Contributions:203 reviews, 142 PRs, 249 pushes in 8 months
jkosternl/animal-game
May 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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