Jeroen Nijhuis
Owner at Elan8
Brabantine City Row United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJeroen Nijhuis is a systems architect and engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing and delivering complex mechatronic and controls systems, now leading Elan8 to help teams adopt Architecture as Code. His background spans embedded control, model‑based design (MBD), PLC code generation and CI/CD for industrial projects, with hands-on roles at Vanderlande where he bridged product ownership, tooling and stakeholder alignment to deploy controls worldwide. He combines mechanical and software expertise from an MSc in Mechatronics with early career work in robotics, vision, and real‑time simulation, enabling pragmatic architectures that span hardware, models and generated code. Known for reducing friction in teams via internal tools and automation, he brings a practical entrepreneurial mindset to both consulting and in‑house roles. An often overlooked strength is his cross-cultural early experience in Shanghai, which shaped his collaborative approach to global deployments.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Mechanical engineering/Mechatronics, MSc Mechanical engineering/Mechatronics at University of Twente
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (29)
buffer9
flutter-plugin7
grpc6
database6
flutter6
protobuf6
permission6
protocol-buffers6
golang5
dart5
systems-biology5
android5
api5
android-api5
ios5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elan8/propanedb
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
A document database for Protocol Buffer messages with GRPC interface
Contributions:6 releases, 178 commits, 13 PRs in 7 months
golangprotocol-buffersbufferprotobufgrpc
elan8/docker-images
Jun 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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