Marc Goosen
Principal Software Architect | Event Driven Systems
Salary / Daily rate
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mobility: Amsterdam, Paris, ...
Freelance
Can come onsite
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Languages
About me
Intro
Principal Software Architect with 20+ years of expertise specializing in Event-Driven Architecture using Kafka Streams, Kotlin & Kubernetes. Currently delivering scalable microservices at APM Terminals, with proven track record at ChargePoint and Royal Schiphol Group implementing DDD, TDD, and functional programming principles. I transform monoliths into cloud-native systems and help teams embrace modern DevOps practices for maximum business impact.
Work experience
Principal Software Engineer
APM TerminalsFreelance
Jan 2025 - Dec 2025
1 year
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Designing and Implementing Event Driven Driven Systems using Kafka Streams, Kotlin & Kubernetes.
Principal Software Engineer
ChargePoint
Sep 2022 - Dec 2024
2 years 4 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Advocating and Implementing Event Driven Driven Architecture using Kafka Streams, Kotlin & Kubernetes.
Freelance Web Architect, Software Developer & Agile Whisperer
PepperjuiceFreelance
Jan 2004 - Oct 2022
18 years 10 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Freelance (Principal) Software Architect, Technical Lead, Software Developer & Devops Engineer specialized in Event Driven Architecture using Kotlin, Kafka Streams & Kubernetes Strong advocate of TDD, DDD, SOLID, FP, FRP & Immutability
Freelance Software Engineer
ViriCiti (now part of ChargePoint)Freelance
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
1 year
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Working on CAN-bus stuff using Typescript, NodeJS, Kotlin, Spring boot, and Kafka
Senior Full Stack Software Developer (backend)
Royal Schiphol GroupFreelance
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
1 year 7 months
Schiphol, Netherlands
Architecting & Developing an Event Driven Architecture in a Monorepo using NodeJS, Typescript, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, RxJS, Websockets, Openshift/Kubernetes/Docker, Github Actions, Jenkins, NestJS/Express, Angular & Swagger.
Senior Software Architect / Technical Lead & Kotlin/Java Developer
iBOOD.comFreelance
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
1 year 2 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Breaking out the monolith, design & setting up the microservice-mesh in GCP, in small continuously deployed iterations & changing people's mindsets. SOLID, DDD, Hexagonal, Functional, Immutable, Eventsourcing Java/Kotlin/Typescript/NextJS/React/Kubernetes/Istio/Helm/Docker/Kafka/Debezium CDC/Elasticsearch/MySQL
PHP Developer / Technical Lead
Royal Schiphol GroupFreelance
Aug 2015 - May 2018
2 years 10 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Freelance Back-end PHP developer and Technical Lead, Setting up the website & tooling from scratch, forming teams. Technologies: Azure/Kubernetes/Docker, PHP/Symfony, Elasticsearch, Varnish, Redis & RabbitMQ, CI/CD, Jenkins, Travis, Agile, DDD, TDD, REST
Founder, CTO, CFO
bookdifferent.comFreelance
Oct 2011 - Jan 2018
6 years 4 months
Technologies: PHP,HTML/CSS/Javascript(jQuery)/Apache/linux, Memcache, Bash, SOLR, Varnish Cache, Lean.
Senior PHP Developer
SBSFreelance
Nov 2014 - Jul 2015
9 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
www.kijk.nl and www.sbs6.nl, www.sbs9.nl, www.veronicatv.nl & www.net5.nl. Technologies: PHP, Symphony, puppet, vagrant, TDD, Varnish, nginx, Javascript(Vanilla, jQuery)
Freelance Lead Developer/Web Architect
Sanoma Media Netherlands B.V.Freelance
Apr 2012 - Jul 2014
2 years 4 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
www.startpagina.nl: PHP/Zend Framework, MySQL, Varnish, Elasticsearch, Javascript(Vanilla, jQuery)/nodeJS/expressjs, MongoDB, Python/Django, Puppet/Hiera/Vagrant, C.
Freelance programmer
Theater in Nederland (voorheen Theater Instituut Nederland)Freelance
Sep 2011 - May 2012
9 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
PHP (lightVC), HTML/CSS/Javascript(jQuery)/Apache/linux/, SSO-oplossingen, ImageMagick, MongoDB, SOLR, Amazon Cloud Services (AWS S3, EC2), Varnish Cache, Rest Client/Server.
Freelance Programmer
The Dutch Postcode LotteryFreelance
Mar 2011 - Aug 2011
6 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
PHP (Zend Framework), MySQL/HTML/CSS/Javascript(jQuery)/Apache/linux/Ant/XML/XSLT/Memcache, Scrum.
Freelance programmeur
180 AmsterdamFreelance
Apr 2010 - Dec 2010
9 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Working for Adidas during 2010 FIFA World Cup in SA - .NET/C#/aspx/MVC 2 framework, HTML/CSS/Javascript (AJAX, jQuery), XML/XSLT/XSD, unit-tests(mspec), MS SQL-server, IIS, SOAP/REST, Facebook-applications, Scrum
Freelance programmer
TMG (Telegraaf Media Groep)Freelance
Oct 2006 - Oct 2009
3 years 1 month
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
www.speurders.nl Technologies: PHP/MySQL/HTML/CSS/Javascript(AJAX, Prototype.js), Linux, Memcache, Apache, Squid, Google Maps, Smarty, mod_rewrite. Fredhopper(lucene), XML/XSD/XSLT, Zend.
Freelance programmer
ABN AMRO Bank N.V.Freelance
Jan 2005 - Oct 2006
1 year 10 months
Internet banking application. Technologie: J2EE, Struts, Java/JSP, EJB, Websphere, XML/XSLT/CSS/HTML/Javascript, WAI
Lead Backend Developer
EuroRSCG 4D
Jan 2000 - Jan 2004
4 years 1 month
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Design & implementation of websites, online Imagebank, online & email survey system, personalised Email Newsletter System. Technologies: ASP/MS SQL/IIS/Visual Basic/SOAP/.NET/XML/XSD/XSLT/HTML/CSS
Senior Internet Developer
ELITES CONSULTING
Jan 1999 - Jul 1999
7 months
Paris Area, France
Technologies: Visual Basic, MS SQL Server, ASP/HTML
Software Engineer
MediaSpring
Jun 1998 - Jan 1999
8 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Technologies: Visual Basic, MS SQL-server, ASP/HTML.
Senior Database Manager
European Communication Masters (ECM)
Jan 1997 - Jul 1998
1 year 7 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Technologies: Visual Basic/Delphi, MS SQL-server, ASP/HTML.
Education
University of Amsterdam
Information Technology
1988 - 1994
6 years 1 month
Gemeentelijk Gymnasium
1982 - 1988
6 years 1 month