Summary
Paul Krijgsman is a versatile software and platform engineer with over a decade of experience building high-availability, secure backend systems and modern DevOps platforms for industries ranging from healthcare and telecom to logistics and media. He combines hands-on architecture and coding (PHP, Python, Symfony, Laravel, Flask) with leadership roles as team lead, coach and technical lead, improving engineering culture, developer experience and CI/CD automation. Paul excels at migrations, performance optimization, observability and Big Data tooling, and often architects containerized, Docker/Kubernetes-based infrastructures with Prometheus/Grafana monitoring. He is entrepreneurial—founding Inspire IT Consultant and leading technical strategy at startups and partner companies—while also able to roll up his sleeves on API design, security hardening and database tuning. A pragmatic believer in clean separation of frontend and backend, he repeatedly turns messy legacy systems into maintainable, test-driven platforms. Notably, Paul mixes commercial product focus with mission-critical system experience, helping companies treat platform reliability as a long-term investment.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Mavo Secondary School, Mavo Secondary School at Walburg College
Bachelor's Degree Grafimedia Technologie (GMT), Bachelor's Degree Grafimedia Technologie (GMT) at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
MBO Niv.4 IT-Mediaproductie, MBO Niv.4 IT-Mediaproductie at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam
English, Dutch