Joost Van De Wijgerd
Founding Partner at Shamrock Ventures
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJoost Van De Wijgerd is a seasoned technology founder and architect with over two decades of experience building and scaling products from early startups to multi-million euro exits. He co-founded SmartHaven and later JTeam/SpringSource, led architecture and operations at eBuddy during its peak of tens of millions of users, and served as CTO and co-founder of BUX before it joined ABN AMRO. Now a founding partner at Shamrock Ventures, he blends hands-on engineering judgment with investor discipline to back impact-driven pre-seed startups in cleantech, circular economy and sustainable mobility. Trained in artificial intelligence at the University of Amsterdam, Joost is comfortable bridging research-informed approaches and pragmatic, open-source enterprise Java practices. He has a track record of creating companies that marry technical excellence with commercial outcomes and often moves between operator, investor and advisor roles to accelerate scale.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
DNF, Artificial Intelligence, DNF, Artificial Intelligence at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (39)
kafka10
actor-system10
java10
scala10
smile10
persistent10
actor10
apache-kafka10
actor-model10
apache9
avro9
binary-format9
kafka-consumer9
nginx8
elastic8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elasticsoftwarefoundation/elasticactors-kubernetes
Jun 2017 - May 2022
Run an ElasticActors cluster on K8S and deploy your actors as a jar file
Contributions:3 PRs, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
k8skubernetesjarelasticsearchcluster
elasticsoftwarefoundation/elasticactors-systems
Feb 2014 - Oct 2019
Current useful implementations (plugins / extensions) of Elastic Actors
Contributions:47 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 5 years 9 months
implementationselasticextensionselasticsearchactors
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