Richard Bosch
Senior Java Software Engineer at IT Topdogs
North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRichard Bosch is a Senior Java Software Engineer and architect with over a decade of experience designing integration-heavy backend and middleware systems, with deep expertise in Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kubernetes and cloud platforms. He has built Kafka libraries and extensions and helped design a Kafka governance platform, pairing hands-on engineering with developer advocacy and customer success to translate real-world needs into resilient integrations. His career spans embedded and enterprise systems work through roles at Logica, CGI and Axual, where he combined architecture, lead development and public-facing content like blogs on event streaming. Known for pragmatism and clear technical communication, he helps teams adopt event-driven patterns and operationalize streaming at scale. An enthusiast of aviation photography and historic-to-cutting-edge tech, he brings curiosity about both system design and the physics behind modern communications. Based in North Holland, he blends practical implementation experience with a knack for evangelizing complex distributed systems.
6 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Embedded Systems, Industrial Computing, Bachelor, Embedded Systems, Industrial Computing at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (32)
nuget10
confluent10
kafka10
dotnet10
kafka-streams10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
streaming10
stream-processing9
daemonset6
pods6
pycharm5
webstorm5
openshift5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Axual/ksml
May 2021 - Feb 2023
Kafka Streams without Java
Contributions:14 releases, 103 reviews, 22 commits in 1 year 9 months
javakafka-streamsapachekafkakafkastreamslowcode
richard-axual/ksml
Nov 2024 - Feb 2026
Kafka Streams for Low Code Environments
Contributions:51 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 2 months
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