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Justin van den Anker
Justin van den Anker

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Justin van den Anker
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Justin van den Anker
A curious george at heart

  1. Sabbatical

    Sep 2025 - present

    Travel

    • Planned break for travel, relocation, and personal projects, now actively seeking software engineering roles.

  2. Greenchoice

    Jun 2024 - Sep 2025

    Software Developer

    • .Net 8 microservice architecture using MassTransit and RabbitMQ
    • Implementing technical solutions for the energy and sustainability transition
    • Designing and implementing solutions to reduce legacy systems and improve agility
    • Building products that break the tradional way of operating in the energy sector

  3. Greenchoice

    Oct 2024 - Feb 2025

    Product Owner a.i.

    • Collecting requirements from stakeholders and turning them into actionable work items for the team
    • Communicating and managing timelines on deliverables
    • Translating complex technological challenges into comprehensible analogies for business counterparts
    • Setting out a path forward in the energy and sustainability transition

  4. Pension Fund

    Dec 2022 - Feb 2024

    DevOps Engineer

    • .Net 6 with MVC
    • Bootstrap for frontend
    • Building a worker to interact with Microsoft HPC
    • Deploying solutions from Azure DevOps to VM’s
    • Azure DevOps for CI/CD
    • EF Core for database interaction
    • Unit testing with NSubstitute
    • IIS 10

  5. Financial Broker

    Apr 2022 - Oct 2022

    Fullstack Developer

    • .Net 6 microservices setup
    • Azure functions to process incoming events
    • Azure EventGrid for microservice communication
    • Azure Blob Storage for storing large data files
    • Azure Queues for storing events
    • Migrating from App Service Plan to AKS
    • Azure Monitor used for failure alerting
    • Angular 2 frontend application for internal use
    • Docker for application containerization
    • KEDA for scaling
    • Prometheus + Grefana for monitoring k8s cluster
    • Azure Devops for CI/CD

  6. Employment Agency

    Nov 2021 - Mar 2022

    Full Stack Developer

    • .Net 5
    • Azure Blob storage for document storage
    • Infrastructure management with ARM Templates
    • Azure DevOps for CI/CD
    • Azure Service Bus
    • l18n support and accesibility tools like screen reader
    • Unit testing with Moq

  7. Logistics Company

    Dec 2018 - Oct 2021

    Full Stack Developer

    • Frontend development with Telerik
    • NHibernate as ORM
    • .Net 4.7 Development
    • My SQL Database for Views & Stored Procedures
    • Greenfielded two projects with .Net Core & Vue.js

  8. Betabit

    Sep 2018 - May 2024

    Software Consultant

    • Secondment for bespoke .Net & Azure solutions
    • Worked for various clients listed above
    • Projects range from cloud-native greenfield projects to legacy maintenance
    • Mostly work in agile environments

  9. Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences

    2013-2018

    Computer Science

    • Worked as a peercoach for three years