Sander Verhagen
VP Of Engineering at Roost
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolSander Verhagen is a pragmatic, hands-on VP of Engineering with 13+ years of professional experience and a BSc in software/electronics engineering, currently leading Roost’s engineering team to deliver a modern deposits and compliance SaaS for rental properties. He has deep Java and microservices expertise, a strong DevOps mindset (Docker, AWS, CI/Maven), and a track record of architecting scalable enterprise systems with hardware integrations and complex protocols. Previously he scaled backend teams and drove API/microservice transitions at Skyward and Jama, and has been the “go-to” technical lead on long-running product efforts dating back to embedded and device-integrated systems. Known for TDD, reusable design, and improving SDLC and reproducibility, he pairs authentic leadership and mentoring with active, code-first involvement in strategic projects. An underrated strength is his breadth across embedded, backend, and DevOps domains—enabling reliable end-to-end delivery from device protocols to cloud services.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Authentic leadership, change management and inspiration, Authentic leadership, change management and inspiration at Stokkink Organisation and Career, Consultancy and DevelopmentElectronics Engineering Technology, Electronics Engineering Technology at Oregon Institute of TechnologyTSO, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, TSO, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering at Technisch Instituut Sint jansberg MaaseikBSc (Ing.), Electronics Engineering, BSc (Ing.), Electronics Engineering at Fontys HogescholenHigher General Secondary Education, Higher General Secondary Education at Bisschoppelijk College Sittard
English, Dutch, German, French, Korean
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Totaal-Software/testlog
Mar 2018 - Nov 2023
Library to interact with logging in JUnit tests
Contributions:4 PRs, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
logginginteractjunit-testsjavajunit
sverhagen/mp3-browser
Nov 2012 - Jan 2018
This Joomla plugin will create a table of every MP3 in a specified folder. It displays the ID3 information of each track with a link to download or play the file in the browser
Contributions:103 commits, 10 pushes, 2 tags in 5 years 3 months
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