Summary
Roland Broekema is an Identity & Access Management architect and seasoned full‑stack JavaScript engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, long‑lived platforms for large enterprises. He combines hands‑on coding with architecture leadership—most recently leading the migration of ~80,000 customers to a self‑hosted Keycloak identity platform while refactoring multi‑application frontends and backends. Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js sits alongside strong practical knowledge of CI/CD, cloud (Azure/AWS), OpenID Connect, and observability tooling, allowing him to move quickly between prototyping and production rollouts. Roland’s background spans DevOps, chatbots, analytics and IoT for clients like VodafoneZiggo, KLM and ENGIE, demonstrating an ability to translate legacy systems (including pre‑OIDC suites) into modern, secure solutions. He’s also skilled at coaching teams to adopt agile practices and measurable monitoring improvements, having halved reaction times in critical monitoring operations. Based in Maastricht, he brings a pragmatic, systems‑level mindset rooted in both process improvement (Lean Six Sigma) and broad technical fluency.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
SAP Business Objects Enterprise XI Web Intelligence, SAP Business Objects Enterprise XI Web Intelligence at Vijfhart IT-Opleidingen
Object orientation training for programmers, Object orientation training for programmers at Twice IT Training
Aircraft maintenance (mechanical), Aircraft maintenance (mechanical) at Leeuwenborgh Opleidingen
BI - Enterprise Reporting, Query & Analysis, BI - Enterprise Reporting, Query & Analysis at SAP NL
Lean Six Sigma leanbelt training (Process control), Lean Six Sigma leanbelt training (Process control) at KLM Flight Academy
PHP programming, PHP programming at Twice IT training
Apache Spark Fundamentals by Justin Pihoney, Apache Spark Fundamentals by Justin Pihoney at Pluralsight
Dutch, English