Wim Klerkx
Head Of Engineering Excellence (Transition Lead) at NORVATO
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWim Klerkx is a seasoned engineering leader with 30+ years of cross-disciplinary experience who now leads the establishment of Norvato’s Engineering Excellence function, focusing on positioning the spin-off for an Agentic AI-native future. He combines hands-on architecture and delivery expertise—spanning cloud, SecDevOps, APIs and Terraform—with people-first leadership that elevates reliability, sustainability and developer productivity across large, distributed organizations. Previously he modernized Visma’s ArchTech domain, operationalizing AI-assisted workflows and providing actionable guidance to 100+ teams. His background in science, fine arts photography and early hardware roles gives him a unique ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, practical programs and narratives. Despite a broad career arc from media and research projects to enterprise software, he remains deeply engaged in the “hot end” of software creation, building greenfield programs and cross-functional governance for fast-evolving tech.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate vocational education Electronics, Intermediate vocational education Electronics at MTS EindhovenBachelor of Science Fine Arts Photographic design, Bachelor of Science Fine Arts Photographic design at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague | Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK)First doctoral year Science and Technology Studies, First doctoral year Science and Technology Studies at University of Amsterdam
Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
neo4j9
nodejs7
api7
graphql6
cypher5
js5
javascript5
php4
symfony4
symfony-bundle4
dgraph4
bundle4
graph-database3
graph3
neo4j-plugin2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
waxs/JavaScript2
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Course content for the JavaScript2 module
Contributions:98 comments in 14 days
jsjavascript
trompamusic/ce-api
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
The Contributor Environment API for the TROMPA project
Contributions:214 commits, 16 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 months
apitrompacontributortrompamusicnodejs
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