Summary
Jan Werkhoven is a versatile software engineer, UX designer, and DevOps practitioner based in Melbourne with over a decade building full-stack web applications across Ruby/Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, Svelte, Flutter and Salesforce ecosystems. He combines 14 years of web development with a strong visual sensibility from photography and graphic design, enabling pragmatic, user-centred interfaces for complex domains like education, healthcare and government. Jan has led and mentored engineering teams, shipped customer-facing portals and accessibility-focused solutions at organisations including Xero, NDIS, HotDoc and multiple Victorian government departments. Comfortable switching hats from hands-on coding to operations and product design, he’s known for keeping teams focused and for being the “rubber duck” mentor who pair-programs through thorny problems. An entrepreneur at heart, he co-founded a web services company in Europe and brings that product-minded perspective to enterprise-scale projects.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) International Business, Master of Business Administration (MBA) International Business at Lessius Hogeschool
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Business Management, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Business Management at Karel de Grote Hogeschool
English, Dutch, French, German, Chinese