Koen Prins is a pragmatic software engineer with 10+ years building cloud-native backends in Kotlin and Java, currently implementing Buy Now Pay Later at bol using Kotlin 2, Spring Boot and GCP. He has deep experience across AWS and GCP, serverless and Kubernetes, and has led teams and architecture efforts at Nike, Decathlon Digital and others, balancing delivery speed with robust design. Comfortable across the full backend stack, he’s delivered high-volume data pipelines, pricing and marketing systems, and customer identity platforms using modern Java/Kotlin stacks and infra-as-code. Known for a dry sense of humor—“writing code for fun and money”—he pairs that pragmatism with hands-on mentoring and test automation expertise dating back to enterprise finance projects. Based in Amstelveen, he often prefers doing the minimal, well-automated work that produces maximal business value.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, Science profile, VWO, Science profile at Isendoorn College
Bedrijfskundige Informatica, Bedrijfskundige Informatica at Leidsche Onderwijs Instelling
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