Summary
Samuel Duursma is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of professional experience and eight years focused on backend systems, specializing in building scalable distributed architectures. He regularly works with Kotlin, Clojure, Kafka, Spring Boot, MongoDB, AWS and Kubernetes, and continues to explore functional programming in his spare time by coding in Clojure. His recent roles include building automated distributed finance systems at Flexport and delivering production services across health, mobility, and mapping domains, most recently at TomTom. Comfortable across startups and larger engineering organizations, he combines pragmatic engineering with a taste for elegant, data-driven designs and operational resilience. An early background in science and engineering informs his methodical approach to system design and iterative delivery.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Open Universiteit
High School, Double profile: Science and Engineering, Science and Health, High School, Double profile: Science and Engineering, Science and Health at Vossius Gymnasium
Dutch, English