Paulien Van Alst
GenAI Engineer at Rabobank
Leeuwarden, Frisia, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPaulien Van Alst is a GenAI and software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native systems and developer tooling across Java, Kotlin and Go. She blends hands-on backend and frontend experience—spanning Spring, Neo4j, Postgres, Kubernetes and GCP—with applied GenAI work at Rabobank and longstanding senior engineering roles. A Google-recognized Kotlin expert who codes “by day and night,” she has deep practical experience shipping services in banking, logistics and public sector domains. Beyond engineering, she co-hosted the BarCoding podcast to share developer insights, reflecting a commitment to community and knowledge transfer. Trained in physics and biomedical image sciences, she brings analytical rigor and a research mindset to pragmatic product delivery. Based in Leeuwarden, she values focused collaboration and treats unsolicited recruitment outreach as spam—she prefers conversations rooted in clear technical relevance.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Biomedical Image Sciences, Master of Science (MS), Biomedical Image Sciences at Utrecht UniversityBaccalauréat général, option sciences de l'ingénieur, spécialité physique-chimie (Sciences), Baccalauréat général, option sciences de l'ingénieur, spécialité physique-chimie (Sciences) at Lycée Georges Dumézil
Dutch, French, English
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Github Skills (116)
kotlin-multiplatform10
lambda10
gatling10
kotlin10
injection10
faas9
loadtest9
functions-as-a-service9
immutability9
dependency-injection9
performance-testing9
google-cloud9
serve9
load-testing9
serverless9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
PaulienVa/java-2-kotlin
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 62 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
PaulienVa/rugbymatch
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 137 pushes in 7 months
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