Joost Damen
Managing Partner at Dots & Arrows
North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJoost Damen is a Managing Partner leading Dots & Arrows, an integration and automation practice active in the Netherlands and Belgium, with over a decade of hands-on experience in MuleSoft and API-led architectures. He combines technical leadership, consultancy and curriculum design—previously serving as a Principal Technical Instructor for MuleSoft EMEA—with deep expertise across Anypoint Platform components like Mule Runtime, CloudHub and API Manager. Joost excels at contract-first API design, workflow automation and building reusable, future-proof integrations that unlock data and optimize business processes. He started in AV and systems integration, giving him a practical systems-thinking perspective that informs robust, production-ready solutions. Known for pragmatic problem solving and teaching ability, he bridges training, architecture and delivery to help organizations adopt the right tools for the job.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
HBO Bachelor of ICT / Software Engineering, HBO Bachelor of ICT / Software Engineering at Fontys University of Applied SciencesMBO ElectronicsEngineeringMathIT, MBO ElectronicsEngineeringMathIT at ROC Midden Brabant/College Techniek
Dutch, English, German
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55answers
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Github Skills (30)
mulesoft10
raml10
mule9
home-assistant9
jekyll9
connectors9
documentation8
api-documentation8
specification7
csv6
home-automation6
munit6
dataweave6
anypoint-studio6
servicenow6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jmjdamen/mulesoft-docs
Oct 2015 - Sep 2018
Main MuleSoft documentation repository
Contributions:54 pushes in 2 years 11 months
mulesoft
jmjdamen/surfnet-jira
Mar 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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