Thinus Naude
Director Of Engineering at Adyen
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolThinus Naude is a Platform Engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on and managerial experience, currently directing 70+ engineers across eight cross-functional teams at Adyen in Amsterdam. He specializes in building scalable, mission-critical platform capabilities—databases (Postgres, Cassandra, Redis), streaming/messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ), core Java frameworks, and application services like feature flags and secrets management. Known for turning platform strategy into developer-facing "paved road" solutions, he focuses on increasing developer productivity and enabling product teams to ship faster with confidence. Thinus blends deep distributed-systems expertise and operational rigor with talent scaling—hiring elite engineers and structuring teams to drive measurable business outcomes. He has risen through technical roles at Adyen from software engineer to director, bringing a practitioner’s perspective to leadership and on-call reliability. Outside the org chart, he’s an inquisitive technologist who favors cloud-native modernization and pragmatic rearchitecture to solve long-term scalability and security challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at University of Pretoria
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (72)
loopback10
firebase10
auth10
deno9
aws-amplify9
rest9
ai9
api9
database9
aws-apigateway9
realtime9
postgresql9
amazon-cognito9
aws-s39
nextjs9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thinusn/loopback4-example-microservices
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
scalableloopbackmicroservicesloopback-nexttypescript
BuzzSpaceB/DatabaseStuff
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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