Summary
Stef Hock is a principal engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building resilient, privacy-conscious platforms and growing senior engineers across multi-region teams. He combines deep platform and cloud (AWS-focused, cloud-agnostic mindset) architecture with pragmatic leadership to simplify complex enterprise modernisation and integration-heavy environments. At Nike he led ~25 engineers across five squads, delivered cross-partition cloud migrations (including AWS China), and partnered with Privacy and Identity to enable secure token exchange and compliant adtech integrations. Stef champions sustainable delivery through IaC, standardized CI/CD, TDD and Extreme Programming while fostering psychologically safe, high-trust teams that own outcomes. Known for translating regulatory and privacy constraints into practical engineering patterns, he balances technical depth with empathy and clear stakeholder alignment.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, VWO at Comenius College
Multimedia Engineer, Multimedia Engineer at College of MultiMedia
English, Dutch, German, French