Summary
Roy Scheefhals is a Product Owner and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-tech product software and developer tooling from embedded systems to cloud-enabled build infrastructure. Currently leading a Craftsmanship DevOps team at Thales, he blends hands-on performance engineering—such as Bazel-based build system development and high-performance I/O work for seismic processing—with product ownership across multidisciplinary teams. His background includes modernizing legacy codebases and CI/CD workflows, migrating source control at scale, and improving developer efficiency in both consultancy and in-house roles. Based in Vianen, Netherlands, Roy brings a pragmatic systems-level perspective and a knack for translating low-level performance improvements into measurable product and team outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)