Michael Heemskerk is a business architect and senior product owner with 13 years of experience driving user-centered, data-informed products in staffing and recruiting at Randstad. He has led cross-functional teams to build widely adopted tools—ranging from a 2,500+ user job request platform to sales and next-gen search & match systems that embed algorithms and map visualizations to boost revenue and efficiency. Comfortable bridging process architecture, BPMN, and Agile delivery, he combines hands-on backend contributions (notably improving session handling in the popular Hazelcast project) with strong stakeholder management and entrepreneurship. A former professional speedskater turned product leader, he brings discipline, a performance mindset, and a knack for turning user research into measurable product outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Sport, exercise and lifestyle, Bachelor’s Degree, Sport, exercise and lifestyle at Hogeschool INHOLLAND
Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Hazelcast web module, focusing on improving the functionality and performance of the distributed session management. They fixed a bug related to incorrect caching behavior within `HazelcastHttpSession.getAttribute` and optimized the web filter by using `IMap.set` instead of `IMap.put`. Additional contributions involved allowing subclasses to override `HazelcastHttpSession` creation, and refactoring related to session handling. They also made changes to the Hazelcast spring module.
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Michael Heemskerk - Business Architect at Randstad