Koen Lavooij
Technical Lead at Leap
Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolKoen Lavooij is a hands-on technical lead with nine years of professional experience building high-performance, production-grade systems from the ground up. Based in Utrecht, he combines deep systems-level curiosity—willing to dig into the Linux kernel for last-mile performance gains—with strong design and architectural oversight that keeps projects scalable and maintainable. He has led engineering efforts at Leap after years of driving performance and data-heavy systems at companies like Distimo and App Annie, where he optimized databases and streaming ingest pipelines under heavy load. A founder-turned-leader, Koen bridges product domain knowledge and code-level detail, enabling early problem detection and pragmatic solutions that align with business needs. His career shows a pattern of stepping into hard problems first and shipping optimized systems that others rely on in production.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Twente UniversityP, Technische Informatica, P, Technische Informatica at Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen (HAN)
Dutch, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
spec10
evolutionary10
cqrs10
restful-api10
stubs10
api-client10
generator10
swagger10
event-sourcing10
java10
axon10
api10
sdk10
rest-client10
rest10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
koenlavooij/scala-kafka-ndw-xml-producer
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
koenlavooij/ov-demo
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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