Summary
Roland De Boo is a senior software engineer and data platform specialist with over a decade of experience designing, building and running cloud-native data architectures across enterprises and startups. He blends deep hands-on skills in Python, Go and Java with Kubernetes, Azure/AWS and infrastructure-as-code to deliver robust, maintainable systems for streaming, ETL and analytics. Roland has repeatedly led teams and platforms—from founding early-stage IoT and meter-data platforms to heading data lake and sensor-image pipelines at CARIAD and Stedin—while staying comfortable in both hands-on implementation and high-level technical strategy. He favors pragmatic, low-process approaches that emphasize security, observability and operational responsibility. Roland’s background in complex integration (TIBCO, JMS, diverse transports) and experience with ML tooling and interpretability research give him an edge when bridging data engineering and applied data science. Based in Rotterdam, he consults and freelances regularly, able to translate complex technical trade-offs into clear roadmaps and working systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Propedeuse Political Science, Propedeuse Political Science at Leiden University
VWO, VWO at Erasmiaans Gymnasium Rotterdam
MSc. Computer Science, MSc. Computer Science at Delft University of Technology