Tim Van Baarsen
Kafka Specialist & Java Software Engineer ING at ING Nederland
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTim Van Baarsen is a Kafka specialist and Java software engineer with nine years of professional experience, currently focused on streaming architectures and resilient back-end systems at ING in Amsterdam. He progressed from full-stack and DevOps roles into a dedicated Kafka expertise, reflecting a strong grounding in both application development and operational reliability. His background includes building interactive education-tech solutions and serving as scrummaster, showing he combines technical delivery with team leadership and agile practices. Comfortable across Java ecosystems and distributed messaging, he is adept at translating complex business requirements into scalable, observable pipelines. Based in the Netherlands, Tim brings pragmatic engineering shaped by long-term tenure at ING and earlier hands-on roles at Trifork/Orange11 where he worked on both server and rich client projects. A less obvious strength is his blend of product-focused craftsmanship and operational instincts, making him effective at both building features and keeping them robust in production.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Technische Informatica & Technische Kantoor Automatisering, Technische Informatica & Technische Kantoor Automatisering at ROC ASA Europa College AmsterdamInformatica, Informatica at Hogeschool van Amsterdam
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Github Skills (50)
spring10
spring-security10
java10
spring-boot10
maven-plugin9
confluent-cloud9
springframework9
jenkins-plugin9
gradle-plugin9
azure8
powershell8
producer8
azure-devops8
confluent8
composition7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
j-tim/spring-cloud-microservices-workshop
Oct 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 25 pushes, 9 branches in 7 months
j-tim/docker-docker-compose-jdk
Apr 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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