Jeffrey Van Helden
Senior Software Developer at Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Van Helden is a Senior Software Developer based in Auckland with nine years of experience designing and operating distributed Java-based systems. He has specialized in streaming platforms—leading the Apache Kafka initiative at The Warehouse Group and continuing that focus at Waka Kotahi—bringing architecture, development and ops experience for production-grade streaming infrastructure. His background spans modernizing legacy Java stacks, improving test and delivery pipelines, and adopting stream processing tools like Apache Flink to turn data into real-time value. Jeffrey blends deep hands-on engineering with coaching and technical leadership, having driven upgrades from Spring 3 to 4, Java 8 adoption, and large-scale refactors. Outside work he’s clearly obsessed with messaging systems—his GitHub tagline Eat. Sleep. Learn Kafka. Code Spring AI Repeat hints at a continual pursuit of expertise in Kafka, Spring and AI integrations.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Utrecht University
Github Skills (154)
location10
stream10
tile3810
platform-services10
geo10
reactive9
interactive9
sql9
ksqldb9
confluent-platform9
spatial9
confluent9
geospatial9
kafka-connector9
confluent-cloud9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LeonardoBonacci/oogway
Apr 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:9 releases, 60 PRs, 607 pushes in 1 year 10 months
LeonardoBonacci/oogway-config-data
Feb 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 release, 17 PRs, 140 pushes in 7 months
configurationconfigyaml
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