Stephen Oostenbrink
Consultant at Owner of New Paradigm
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Oostenbrink is a seasoned technology leader and principal consultant specializing in AI, enterprise architecture, and large-scale transformation, with over 25 years of experience across public, energy, and utilities sectors. He has repeatedly translated strategic vision into engineering reality—most notably as CTO at EDSN, where he led the shift from outsourced operations to an in-house engineering organization, scaling teams from 2 to 25 and building a 10+ architect practice. Stephen blends platform thinking, cloud-native modernization, and DevSecOps with pragmatic governance to deliver secure, compliant, and resilient digital capabilities that support the Dutch energy transition. He now advises executive teams on responsible AI adoption, operating model design, and rapid AI validation through an AI Innovation Hub that he helped establish. Known for making technology governable without bureaucracy, he thrives in complex multi-stakeholder environments where strategy, delivery, security, and talent must align. His background as a founder and long-term interim advisor gives him uncommon fluency in both hands-on delivery and board-level strategy.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor (ing) Information technology & Information engineering, Bachelor (ing) Information technology & Information engineering at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
Github Skills (185)
testing10
publish10
isomorphic-javascript10
javascript10
acl10
changelog10
vue10
facebook10
semantic10
continuous-delivery9
browser9
wallet9
rest9
x5099
api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nidkil/setup-os-repo
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:13 releases, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
nidkil/scala-kvk-web-scraper
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:40 commits in 1 month
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