Summary
Merlijn Boogerd is a software consultant with over a decade of experience helping teams deliver pragmatic, high-throughput distributed systems across retail, logistics and public infrastructure. He specialises in functional programming, reactive distributed systems and microservice architectures, with hands-on experience in Scala, Java, Akka and cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes, AWS and Azure. Comfortable moving between greenfield rearchitectures and incremental migrations, he has helped build event-driven platforms, hybrid warehouse controls and a railway map-data platform that required cross-team coordination and subscription-driven data flows. Merlijn balances deep theoretical understanding of decentralised systems with a talent for ruthless prioritisation and human-centred team work, and he’s quietly passionate about Civic Tech and collaborative applications that amplify collective rationality.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor Cognitive Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht University
Bachelor ICT, Bachelor ICT at HZ University of Applied Sciences
French