Jan Van Der Sloot
North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Van Der Sloot is a senior backend engineer with a decade of professional experience, currently building cloud-native services at Backbase from his base in North Holland. He brings deep Java/JEE expertise and an architect's mindset developed across banking, fintech, and consultancy roles at ING, Triodos Bank, and numerous freelance engagements. Jan has a practical IoT and hardware background—having developed devices with ESP8266, LoRa and embedded C++—which informs pragmatic system design and edge-to-cloud integrations. He is comfortable across the full backend stack: microservices with Spring Boot, messaging (MQTT, JMS), containerization with Docker, and persistence layers including MySQL and Oracle. Known for combining hands-on coding with requirements, prototyping and testing, he focuses on resilience, observability and secure transaction flows in high-demand financial systems. Trained originally in biology, he brings a methodical, research-minded approach to software architecture and problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Drs, Biology, Drs, Biology at Universiteit van Amsterdam
Github Skills (16)
backbase10
dataloader10
fuel10
security5
networking5
openstack5
windows5
k8s4
observability3
api-specification3
kubernetes3
cni3
ebpf3
network-security2
kubernetes-networking2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SjaakBall/PopularMovies
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:27 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
SjaakBall/LowPowerDHTSensor
Apr 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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