Joost Farla
Co-Founder at Self-employed
North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJoost Farla is an experienced cloud-native architect and co-founder with 11+ years building scalable, data-driven platforms and APIs. He leads ModelDesk to bridge metadata and data models across standards, while consulting and designing serverless, event-driven systems as a Cloud Solutions Architect. Previously he architected high-availability data platforms for the Dutch Kadaster and co-founded Apiwise to professionalize API delivery and developer experience. An active contributor to the popular Serverless Framework, his backend work improved deployment, Lambda permissions and developer ergonomics—evidence of his hands-on approach to making complex cloud workflows reliable and maintainable. Based in North Brabant, he blends startup product instincts with enterprise-grade architecture, often surfacing practical integrations between metadata, APIs and serverless operations.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Software Engineering, Bachelor Software Engineering at Avans University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English, German, French
Stackoverflow
66reputation
8kreached
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Github Skills (19)
aws-lambda10
aws10
serverless10
javascript9
nodejs9
apidoc8
api8
aws-cloudformation8
microservices6
data-retrieval6
doctrine-orm6
dump6
symfony6
css6
microservices-application6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 26 PRs, 90 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Joost primarily contributed to backend functionality within the Serverless framework. Their commits focused on enhancing the framework's deployment process, including allowing custom selection patterns and making Lambda permissions stage-independent. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs, improved the module/function creation flow, and made adjustments to the underlying code. Their work also included adding convenience getters to classes.
aws-lambdaserverlessiot-applicationsawsgoogle-functions
imx-org/imx-digilab
Oct 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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