Koen Roevens
Cloud Application Architect
Antwerp Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolKoen Roevens is a Cloud Application Architect and freelance Java/Golang engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native, event-driven microservices and developer-focused delivery pipelines. He transitioned from Java/JEE to Go in 2017 and combines deep systems knowledge—from container orchestration and concurrency debugging to GRPC, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Spanner—with strong coaching skills that uplift junior engineers via extreme programming and SOLID-driven design. Koen has led migrations of legacy systems to modern microservices at EU institutions and built resilient SaaS platforms for healthcare and startups, often improving performance and operability by orders of magnitude. He treats automation, testing, and CI/CD as non-negotiable and brings practical expertise in serverless patterns, DevOps, and distributed systems internals (including low-level container work at the kernel/namespaces level). Based in Antwerp, he maintains open-source tooling (mvn-fluid-cd) and favors pragmatic architectures that make complex integrations auditable and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Economics at KU Leuven
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Github Skills (73)
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rest10
java10
hibernate10
jersey-framework10
jersey10
servlet10
dropwizard10
jdbi10
jax-rs10
jetty10
rundeck9
maven-extension9
restful-api9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rvs-fluid-it/microservice-bundle
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:69 commits, 1 PR, 63 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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rvs-fluid-it/rvs-fluid-it.github.io
Jan 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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