Bas de Groot

CEO

Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland, Netherlands10 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building cloud-native applications.
Advocate for developer experience and streamlined workflows.
Proven track record in leading technical teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on developer experience and cloud-native solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesKotlin

Other Skills

Spring BootThe Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)

About

Leading teams in building cloud-native applications, I balance hands-on development with technical leadership. My expertise in platform engineering and developer experience helps me look for ways to streamline workflows, reduce friction, and help engineers be more effective. I enjoy designing systems that scale, both technically and organizationally, while keeping development a smooth and enjoyable process.

Experience

10 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

2 mos

Current Experience

Creetion

2 roles

Partner

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Lead Engineer at Bol

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Freshminds

6 roles

Tech Lead at EDSN

Mar 2025 – Mar 2026 · 1 yr

Principal Consultant

Promoted

Jul 2024 – Mar 2026 · 1 yr 8 mos

With our team of principal consultants we are on a mission to foster an engineering culture where people are intrinsically motivated to grow through continuous knowledge sharing, mentorship, and coaching.

Developer Experience Engineer at DHL eCommerce

Oct 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

Building an engineering culture centered on innovation and collaboration. Addressing pain points in the development process, reducing cognitive load, by focussing on the DevEx pillars of: experience, discoverability, empowerment, and collaboration.

Senior DevOps Engineer at ING

Jan 2023 – Sep 2023 · 8 mos

Focused on implementing and maintaining the Baker platform. Baker, is an open-source microservice orchestrator written in Scala, actively used by over 40 international teams. My role centered on improving the developer experience of using Baker in Kotlin codebases.

Tech Lead

Promoted

Feb 2021 – Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Led technical interviews to assess candidates' skills as part of the hiring process.
Developed a two-day Kotlin Professional Development training, specifically tailored for Java developers transitioning to Kotlin.
Acted as a speaker at conferences and meetups, representing and advocating for FreshMinds.

Tech Lead at Bol.com

Feb 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

Guided a team through their transition from Java to Kotlin. The team is responsible for building and maintaining several data-intensive microservices in the logistics domain. A key project involved designing and developing a 'single source of truth' for optimal delivery times for all products sold on Bol. This Spring Boot service processes hundreds of millions of Pub/Sub messages daily and supports handling up to 60K requests per second, achieving a 12ms latency at the 99th percentile.