Wessel Bakker
Senior Software Engineer at DHL Parcel
North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWessel Bakker is a Senior Software Engineer and freelance full-stack DevOps specialist with 11 years of experience building maintainable, secure, and scalable systems across cloud, container, and pipeline-as-code environments. He is fluent in typesafe, functional languages like Scala and Kotlin and has a proven track record introducing modern stacks—Kubernetes, Akka Streams, Play, and reactive front-ends—into large enterprise contexts. As a technical team lead he champions agile, autonomous teams, fostering healthy technical debate and collective ownership while stepping in to get hands-on work done when needed. His background spans logistics and finance domains (DHL, ING) and long-term platform modernization at Randstad, where he shipped production-ready responsive modules and led tech adoption. He combines practical DevOps automation with a strong emphasis on industry standards and open-source tooling, preferring elegant, testable solutions over ad-hoc fixes. Based in North Holland, he operates as a freelancer focused on durable, high-quality engineering outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information, Multimedia & Management, Bachelor, Information, Multimedia & Management at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Github Skills (126)
authentication10
saga-pattern10
maven-extension10
logout10
serverless10
orchestration10
microservices10
twitter10
reactive10
jwt10
functions-as-a-service10
jvm10
openid-connect10
cas10
java10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wwbakker/bookmarks-typescript
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
wwbakker/sbt-deploy-static-website-to-s3
Jun 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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