Peter Klijn
Engineering Manager at Adyen
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Klijn is an engineering manager with 13 years of hands-on experience building and leading backend and platform teams across Europe, now driving engineering at Adyen from Amsterdam. He combines deep technical fluency in Scala, Java, Go, Python and JavaScript with a track record of evolving production systems—evidenced by contributions to Zalando’s Skipper reverse-proxy, where he improved logging, routing overrides and Kubernetes integration. Peter has progressed from full‑stack and consultancy roles to senior leadership at companies like Beat and Flexport, focusing on platform services, experimentation and scalable service composition. He pairs pragmatic architecture and observability improvements with people leadership, often stepping into code to ship critical backend features himself.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at Avans University of Applied SciencesMaster of Science (MSc) Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering at Universiteit van AmsterdamICT, ICT at Koning Willem 1 College
Dutch, English
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
router10
logging10
go10
routers10
http-proxy10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-computing9
go-modules9
etcd8
proxy7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
zalando/skipper
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition, including use cases like Kubernetes Ingress
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the backend logic and configuration of the Skipper project. Their work included implementing features related to logging, specifically allowing for structured JSON logging and custom formatters. They also modified and renamed predicate and filter names for improved consistency. Furthermore, the user added functionality to override routing via services and made related adjustments to the Kubernetes integration.
casesproxyingress-controllercontourreverse-proxy
beatlabs/proton
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
cli protobuf to json converter
Contributions:5 releases, 13 reviews, 37 commits in 1 month
golangconverterto-jsonprotocol-buffersjson-converter
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