Jan Blok
Co-Founder at RIGD-LOXIA
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Blok is a seasoned Java software architect and entrepreneur with 16 years of experience building teams, products and large-scale infrastructure for railways and enterprise applications. As co-founder of Servoy and now OpenSource Registry, he blends product vision with hands-on architecture and has led distributed Scrum teams across the Netherlands and Romania. At RIGD-LOXIA he drives critical software for Dutch rail infrastructure, combining safety-minded engineering with practical delivery. An early Apache committer and long-term Java specialist, he brings deep open-source sensibilities to commercial projects and a knack for turning developer-centric tools into widely usable products. Based in the Randstad, he pairs craftsmanship in backend architecture with proven leadership in scaling teams and complex systems.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
English, Dutch
Github Skills (65)
mysql-database10
jaxb10
xjc10
eclipse-plugin10
java10
sqllite10
cytoscapejs10
data-api10
gwt9
golang9
js9
builder-pattern9
jquery-mobile9
graph-theory9
visualization9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
janblok/sablo
Oct 2015 - May 2026
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 8 months
websocketsframeworkwebsocketwebcomponentwicket
rigd-loxia/xmladapter-xjc-plugin
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
Fit XmlJavaTypeAdapter annotations to JAXB classes.
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
javaannotationsfitjaxb
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