Summary
Thijs Oostdam is a DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating backend systems across finance, insurance, mobility, and consultancy environments. Currently at Rabobank after four years at NN, he brings a practical blend of software development roots and infrastructure automation to deliver reliable, cloud-ready services. His background spans backend engineering at fast-moving startups like SnappCar to enterprise DevOps at large Dutch organizations, giving him a knack for scaling practices between teams of different sizes. Trained in game architecture and construction engineering, he pairs creative problem-solving with structural thinking, often choosing the "unknown road" to prototype elegant technical solutions. Based in The Hague, he’s known for continuous learning and translating that curiosity into pragmatic tooling and operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Construction Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Construction Engineering at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
International game architecture and design, International game architecture and design at Breda University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English