Stijn Koopal
Head Of Engineering at Knights Analytics
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolStijn Koopal is a pragmatic Head of Engineering with 10+ years of hands-on experience building scalable backends and maintainable frontends, now leading engineering at Knights Analytics. He combines a strong academic foundation in Computer Science (MSc, Eindhoven) with production experience across Scala, Java and full-stack roles at companies like DHL, ZorgDomein and multiple consultancy engagements. Known for preferring the simplest fit-for-purpose solution, he balances high-quality, elegant implementations with pragmatic delivery and enjoys designing fast, highly scalable service architectures. A supportive team player and communicator, he has run his own consultancy (Koopal.io) and moved from frontend engineer to head of engineering within the same company, showing both technical depth and leadership growth. Based in Utrecht, he’s as comfortable discussing system design as he is cycling outdoors after work — a habit that keeps his analytical thinking sharp.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science and Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology
Dutch, English, German
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stijnkoopal/koopal.io
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021
Personal website (PWA) build with nextjs on netlify
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 236 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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ExperisCiber/CiberBlockchain
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
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