Vincent Free
Engineering Lead at ING
Drenthe, Netherlands
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Top SchoolVincent Free is an Engineering Lead with 11 years of experience building high-performance reactive systems for banking and the public sector, currently leading engineering efforts at ING. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Java, Kotlin, Reactive programming (Reactor/ReactiveX, Vert.x), streaming applications, and pragmatic DevOps with Kubernetes, Docker and test automation grounded in BDD. His career at ING progressed from DevOps and senior developer roles into technical leadership, reflecting a blend of operational rigor and software craftsmanship. Vincent is especially drawn to low-latency, resilient architectures and has a track record of shipping production-grade streaming and reactive services. Based in Drenthe, Netherlands, he pairs enterprise experience with a tester’s mindset from his early test-consultant roles, which informs his emphasis on reliability and observability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor Informatica, bachelor Informatica at Hanze
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (151)
portainer10
jfrog-xray10
docker-container10
dockerfile10
opentelemetry10
namespaces10
artifactory10
docker-compose10
docker-swarm10
cucumber10
java10
remote-development10
telemetry10
docker10
docker-image10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vincentfree/Argentax
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 66 pushes in 10 months
vincentfree/opentelemetry
Jun 2022 - Feb 2025
Open Telemetry extensions
Contributions:14 releases, 2 reviews, 86 PRs in 2 years 9 months
telemetryotelhttp-middlewaremiddlewaremetrics
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