Vincent Kok
Director Of Platform Engineering
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolVincent Kok is a seasoned engineering leader with two decades of experience building and scaling platform and product organizations, currently serving as Director of Platform Engineering at Goodnotes. He spent 12 years at Atlassian driving cloud transformation—founding the Identity platform, converting Confluence to continuous delivery, and leading a 60+ person migration to AWS as part of the Cloud First strategy. Vincent has repeatedly scaled teams and systems (e.g., Trello from ~40 to ~180 engineers and Jira platform capacity from 20k to 100k users), blending technical architecture with operational rigor. He excels at uniting cross-regional teams to deliver high-throughput migration, search, and data-mobility capabilities for enterprise customers. Known for balancing high standards with a people-first culture, he focuses on sustainable velocity, reliability, and security for products used by tens of millions. A practical early engineer turned strategic leader, he still brings hands-on platform instincts to organizational design and large-scale execution.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Information Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Information Engineering at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
133reputation
179reached
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Github Skills (24)
opensocial7
declaration6
fluentnhibernate6
nhibernate6
expand6
kendo-ui6
grid6
java6
row6
animation6
chrome5
safari5
javascript4
jira4
firefox-addon4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
vincentkok/jira-gadgets
Feb 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 1 year 11 months
gadgetsopensocialjira
vincentkok/gradle-gatling
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
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