Martijn Van Den Brand
National IS Manage (Ad Interim)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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SeniorMartijn Van Den Brand is a seasoned supply chain and logistics leader with 11+ years of experience driving end-to-end operations, P&L responsibility and IS transformation across FMCG and retail in ANZ and APAC. Currently serving as National IS Manager (ad interim) at Kuehne+Nagel, he led a shift to a hybrid IS model, cutting change-request lead time by 30% and doubling team productivity through structured governance and tracking. He has founded and grown multiple national business units—including Road Logistics, 4PL and Contract Logistics—combining strategic planning, solution design and on-the-ground implementation to win major retail customers and build national networks. A proven team builder and coach, Martijn has developed and mentored 50+ staff while embedding lean, Six Sigma and middle-management development programs to sustain cultural change. Unusually for a supply chain executive, he also contributes as a Java back-end developer to the high-profile MinecraftForge open-source project, evidencing hands-on technical curiosity and problem-solving across domains. Pragmatic, loyal and decisive under pressure, he excels at turning complex, multi-stakeholder challenges into measurable operational and commercial outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English, Spanish, French, German
Github Skills (10)
javas10
minecraft-forge10
minecraft-fabric10
develop10
forge10
java10
api-design9
data-structures8
data-structure8
git7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MinecraftForge/MinecraftForge
Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
Modifications to the Minecraft base files to assist in compatibility between mods. New Discord: https://discord.minecraftforge.net/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 10 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Martijn primarily contributes to the Minecraft Forge modding framework by fixing bugs and updating core functionalities. They made changes to model data handling in block rendering, ensuring correct data inclusion. Furthermore, they modified the player's item tossing behavior by passing additional flags to events. Additionally, the user updated LootTable handling and tagged content for Minecraft 1.17 and 1.18, and refactored `BlockEntity#save` references.
discordminecraftjavaforgemod
SuperMartijn642/WebsiteServer
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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