Tjeerd Terpstra
Lead Enterprise Architect at Cito
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTjeerd Terpstra is a Lead Enterprise Architect based in Nijmegen with 16 years of hands-on experience evolving from software engineer to strategic IT architect roles at Cito and Atos. He blends strong technical judgement with practical delivery experience across teams, having led development, architecture and scrum efforts in sectors from healthcare to education testing. Known for candid, often unsolicited advice, he pairs broad interests with a pragmatic focus on making software reliably useful — a viewpoint hinted at wryly in his GitHub bio. Tjeerd excels at translating complex requirements into maintainable architectures and coaching teams to implement them. His long tenure at Cito reflects deep institutional knowledge and an ability to steer technology decisions at organizational scale.
16 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer science at University of TwenteVWO, VWO at C.S.G. Comenius
English, Dutch, frisian, German
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Github Skills (90)
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sequence10
complexity10
python9
unobtrusive9
asp-net-mvc9
language-features8
feed8
thunderbird8
programming-language8
jellyfin8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tjeerdhans/wlc-1000-wificonfig
Jul 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 34 PRs, 48 pushes in 5 years 3 months
wifi-settingscamhome-automationwifimanagerduckyscript
tjeerdhans/MoCS
Nov 2009 - May 2014
Contributions:68 commits in 4 years 7 months
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