Summary
Tjerk Stroband is a Principal Software Engineer and cloud architect with nearly three decades of programming experience and two decades focused on Java, now blending modern serverless work in Python and Node.js. He designs and implements secure, highly available cloud systems across AWS services, with deep expertise in networking, TLS, authentication (SAML2/OAuth), and attack surface reduction. As Principal at Silverflow and founder of Smart Cloud Consulting, he combines hands‑on development (Spring, Docker, Redis) with architecture for microservices, event-driven and serverless platforms. Certified at both Associate and Professional AWS Solution Architect levels, he has a practised focus on cost-optimized scalability, caching and redundancy. Colleagues value him for practical security-first engineering and the uncommon mix of legacy Java mastery and recent cloud-native serverless delivery.
9 years of coding experience
English, Dutch