Just Berkhout
Data Engineer Research Software Engineer
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolJust Berkhout is a seasoned Data Engineer and Research Software Engineer based in Queensland with over 25 years of experience building, operating and supporting robust data architectures and real-time pipelines. He specialises in Apache Kafka, relational transactional and analytical RDBMS, and cloud-native services, and has moved between hands-on engineering, technical support at Confluent, and strategic advisory roles in academia and industry. Comfortable presenting, training and mentoring, he combines deep operational know-how with program- and architecture-level thinking to help organisations put reliable data platforms into production. His background spans energy and marine science domains, giving him practical insight into translating complex domain requirements into scalable data solutions. Known as a collaborative leader and knowledge-sharer, he repeatedly focusses on enabling teams to adopt modern data practices rather than just delivering point solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PostGrad Diploma Energy Studies, PostGrad Diploma Energy Studies at Murdoch UniversityCrop Science, Crop Science at Wageningen University & Research
Github Skills (56)
confluent10
jmx-exporter10
newrelic10
jolokia10
confluent-cloud10
confluent-platform10
cloudwatch10
kibana9
monitoring9
sink9
sasl9
kafka9
connect9
ansible9
elastic9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JustBerkhout/nectar-cloud-lessons
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
research-cloud
JustBerkhout/nectar-tutorials
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:16 PRs, 67 pushes, 22 branches in 4 months
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