Zachary Hoekstra
Senior Data Engineer
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Hoekstra is a Senior Data Engineer based in Utrecht with 14 years of experience designing and delivering resilient, high-throughput data pipelines across payments, ad tech, and large-scale cloud platforms. He has built internal frameworks for Spark on AWS EMR and Airflow orchestration at The Trade Desk, tackled payments architecture at Google Play, and most recently served as Data Architect before joining Adyen. Comfortable across the stack, he blends software engineering rigor from early roles at Twitter and HP with a deep focus on data engineering and operational reliability. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex data models into production-ready workflows that accelerate time-to-insight for data scientists and engineers. A former undergraduate researcher in computer vision, he brings a systems-thinking mindset and a knack for building developer-friendly tooling that hides infrastructure complexity.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Teaching, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Teaching at Colorado State University
Github Skills (4)
case-class4
avro4
sbt-plugin3
scala2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zhoekstra/NPCGenerator
Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
zhoekstra/waterwatch
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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