Rik De Valk
Senior Consultant at Brainboss
Hoorn, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRik De Valk is a Senior Consultant with 10+ years of experience helping organisations scale Agile, optimise tooling, and improve end-to-end delivery through pragmatic process and portfolio improvements. He blends hands-on Atlassian expertise (Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management) and scripting (Python, Groovy, JavaScript) with strategic portfolio and program leadership to align strategy with execution. Rik has led large-scale migrations, automated service management implementations, and enterprise rollouts for banks, government and energy firms, and often steps in as interim Product Owner or Portfolio Manager during critical transformations. He’s known for making tooling maintainable and interoperable while coaching teams to adopt sustainable ways of working that increase predictability and visibility. Based in Hoorn, Netherlands, he also leads the Atlassian Community Netherlands and runs his own consulting practice, demonstrating both practitioner depth and community-driven influence. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate enterprise architecture and funding constraints into lightweight, actionable lean portfolio practices.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Mediacollege AmsterdamExecutive Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General, Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General at Avans PlusBusiness Administration, Business Administration at Hogeschool NOVIMaster Project Management (MPM) Project Mangement, Master Project Management (MPM) Project Mangement at Newport Business AcademyGithub contributions (4)
925963/jira
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
925963/hello-world
Oct 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 1 month
python
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