Joost Boer
Senior Scala Consultant at DHL
Brabantine City Row United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJoost Boer is a Senior Scala Consultant and seasoned software architect with over 17 years designing and delivering backend systems across finance, insurance, consumer products and logistics. He combines deep Scala and Java expertise (Akka, Spring, TDD) with cloud-native practices and a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer credential, regularly applying pragmatic, test-driven approaches in agile teams. As founder/CTO of Planning Services and long-time freelance consultant, he balances hands-on engineering with product and startup experience. Joost is an active community builder—organising Brabant.Scala and local developer meetups—which reflects his talent for translating complex technical topics into practical team outcomes. Notably, his repeated senior engagements at companies like DHL, Philips Lighting and bol.com show a track record of trusted delivery on large-scale, mission-critical projects.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English, Dutch, Spanish
Stackoverflow
4,757reputation
1.4mreached
50answers
28questions
kubernetes
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
automation10
neo4j10
home-automation10
concurrent10
directed-acyclic-graph10
neo4j-database10
endpoint10
privacy10
python10
menu10
home-assistant10
nosql10
mqtt10
mocks10
high-performance10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
dwickern/swagger-play
May 2021 - Mar 2025
Swagger API docs for Play Framework
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 3 years 10 months
openapiplayframeworkscalaswagger
diversit/mqtt-netatmo-bridge
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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