Laurens Westerlaken
Back End Engineer at JDriven
Brabantine City Row United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLaurens Westerlaken is a Back End Engineer with nine years of experience building and modernizing Java-based enterprise systems, currently working at ASN Bank and serving as a Senior Java Consultant at JDriven. He specializes in migrating legacy SOAP services to RESTful microservices on Spring Boot, automating developer tooling, and implementing Kubernetes/Helm deployment patterns to accelerate platform adoption. At de Volksbank he drove platform modularization and API management, enabling teams to deliver standardized, cloud-ready services while improving code quality through linters and optimizations. Based in the UK with a BSc in Software Engineering from Fontys, he combines a pragmatically curious mindset with a knack for translating operational pain points into repeatable platform solutions. An intrinsic problem-solver, he brings consultant versatility alongside hands-on engineering in large financial tech environments.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer at Fontys University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English
Github Skills (132)
mass10
python10
abstract-syntax-tree10
api-client10
swagger10
rest-client10
openapi-generator10
openrewrite10
rest-api10
refactoring10
migrate10
openapi10
code-search10
stubs10
gwt10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Laurens-W/openapi-generator
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
api-clientapisdk-generationopenapi-specstubs
Laurens-W/rewrite-static-analysis
Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
OpenRewrite recipes for identifying and fixing static analysis issues.
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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