Ton Bart
Semi Retired, Part Time Senior Software Engineer at Axual
Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorTon Bart is a seasoned software engineer with 30+ years in IT and 15+ years focused on Java/J2EE and modern JVM ecosystems, now working part-time to stay hands-on. He specializes in Java 8, Spring Boot, real-time streaming with Kafka and Apache Flink, and pragmatic architecture that favors simplicity and clean code. Ton has led backend teams, run workshops and conference talks, and mentored developers while balancing deep technical contributions with occasional chapter-lead responsibilities. He keeps sharp by experimenting with alternative JVM languages (Clojure, Scala, Groovy) and exploring orchestration and CI tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, Maven/Gradle and Jenkins. After stepping back for health reasons he chose a semi-retired path at Axual to continue shaping streaming data systems without losing the joy of coding.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English, German, French
Stackoverflow
31reputation
819reached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (58)
kafka-streams10
sink10
refactoring10
kotlin-dsl9
stream-processing9
aerospike9
whiteboard8
kotlin8
expressive8
kafka8
java8
airtable8
data-stream8
dsl8
spark7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tonvanbart/hellospark
May 2018 - Oct 2022
Quick testdrive of Spark-Java
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
javaspark-javatestdrivespark
tonvanbart/ksml
May 2021 - Mar 2025
Kafka Streams for Low Code Environments
Contributions:1 release, 80 PRs, 229 pushes in 3 years 10 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkastreamslow-codeproducer
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