Nik Spijkerman
Chapter Lead (Software Engineering - Microservices) at Traqly
Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand
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Top SchoolNik Spijkerman is a seasoned software engineering leader with over two decades of hands-on experience and more than a decade in professional roles, currently heading the Microservices Chapter at Air New Zealand. He specialises in cloud-native microservices, REST APIs, Kafka integrations and orchestration across Azure and AWS, with deep implementation experience in Java (Spring Boot), C#, PHP and Python. Nik pairs technical leadership with entrepreneurial instincts—running freelance consultancy nspyke and leading the IoT-enabled Fleetman product as Technical Director—so he balances architecture, delivery and product-focused engineering. His background spans ecommerce, media and large-scale enterprise systems, and he has repeatedly converted monoliths into scalable service architectures to leverage cloud auto-scaling. Based in Nelson, New Zealand, he brings pragmatic DevOps sensibilities and a long track record of shipping resilient systems that bridge legacy platforms and modern microservices.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Computing, Applied Computing; marketing, economics, and human resource management, Bachelor of Applied Computing, Applied Computing; marketing, economics, and human resource management at Lincoln University (NZ)BSc, Computing, BSc, Computing at Massey University
English
Github Skills (155)
gps-tracking10
api-platform10
behat10
gps10
traccar10
flysystem10
java10
symfony10
php10
bundle9
rest9
php-framework9
api9
azure9
terraform-module9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Behat/WebApiExtension
Apr 2015 - Oct 2021
[ABANDONED] Behat extension to test web APIs
Contributions:1 PR, 5 comments, 2 issues in 6 years 6 months
behatphpbehat-extension
nspyke/acme-api
May 2025 - May 2025
Sample Java Spring Boot app for ACME Corporation's Widgets and Doodads
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 16 days
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