Summary
Luuk Daemen is a Senior Java Software Engineer with over 11 years of professional experience and a pragmatic, hands-on approach to building reliable backend systems. He specializes in Java, Spring (Boot/Kafka), REST APIs, message-driven architectures and search/observability tooling such as ElasticSearch and Kibana, and has worked across banking, transport, and enterprise domains. As founder of Bold IT and an early contributor to AI-driven job-matching at Found2Day, he combines entrepreneurial initiative with deep enterprise integration experience. Luuk has a long track record of delivering production-grade services on platforms including Apache Kafka, Tomcat and Azure DevOps, and is currently applying that expertise at Royal Schiphol Group. Colleagues value his practical design-pattern mindset and ability to translate complex legacy payment and authorization systems into maintainable, testable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
H.A.V.O., H.A.V.O. at St. Thomas College Venlo
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Hogeschool Informatica Eindhoven