Jork Zijlstra
Senior DevOps Engineer at Energie Data Services Nederland (EDSN) B.V.
Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJork Zijlstra is a Senior DevOps Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating scalable backend systems across Scala, Java, Node.js and cloud-native tooling. He has led engineering and DevOps efforts at Gracenote—driving internal B2B product development with Kafka Streams and Scala—and recently transitioned to a senior DevOps role at EDSN where he focuses on energy data infrastructure. Comfortable across the full lifecycle, Jork combines hands-on coding, platform automation, and QE leadership to ship resilient services and simplify complex domains like government job platforms and large-scale media APIs. He started his career modernizing legacy stacks (ColdFusion to Scala) and has a knack for making APIs accessible to non-Scala teams, reflecting both technical depth and pragmatic product ownership. Based in Utrecht, he blends system-level thinking with practical delivery, frequently balancing performance-driven architecture with maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology/ Software engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology/ Software engineering at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)High School Natuur en Techniek + Natuur en Gezondheid, High School Natuur en Techniek + Natuur en Gezondheid at Alkwin College
English, Dutch
Github Skills (158)
grid-control10
database10
kafka-connect10
cdc10
kafka10
apache-kafka10
kafka-producer10
monitoring9
event-streaming9
zookeeper9
debezium9
databases9
aws-s39
data-pipeline9
docker9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jorkzijlstra/kafdrop
May 2021 - Feb 2022
Kafka Web UI
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 10 branches in 8 months
kafkaweb-ui
jorkzijlstra/docker-no-ip
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
Docker container for No-IP DNS updater
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
dnsdocker-containernoip
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