Jan Blok
Co-Founder at OpenSource Registry
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 (92)
builder-pattern10
theia10
eclipse10
refactoring10
jaxb10
xjc10
shim10
eclipse-plugin10
cytoscapejs10
theory9
javascript9
golang9
jquery-mobile9
graph-theory9
visualization9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
janblok/sablo
Oct 2015 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 8 years 10 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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