Niek Palm

Niek is a Principal Engineer in the Philips Software Center of Excellence. He supports businesses in the goal of building better software and engineering practices. Niek is actively involved in shaping the future of software within Philips by driving DevOps culture transformation. He is playing a key role in driving the InnerSource community in Philips to build faster, better software together. As public speaker, blogger, open source developer and book reviewer, he advocates and shares his expertise on key areas as Cloud, DevOps and Software Development.

Niek is a Senior Cloud Architect at Philips. He is a hands-on architect with a focus on cloud, DevOps and software development. He is a strong advocate of open source and inner source. Niek is a conference speaker and technical proofer. He is currently having a focus on (multi) cloud, shaping cloud / machine learning architectures, and building DevOps patterns on enterprise scale. Technologies that me keep busy now a days are: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Service Meshes, Spring Cloud, TypeScript, Serverless, Machine Learning, Continuous Delivery, Google Cloud, and much more.

Niek helped manning the last decade to review and improve books on cloud, DevOps, software development, and software architectures.

• Technical Proofer - Cloud Native Spring in Action with Spring Boot and Kubernetes

• Technical Proofer - Terraform in Action

• Technical Proofer - Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition

• Technical Proofer - Full Stack GraphQL Applications: With React, Node.js, and Neo4j

• Technical Proofer - Docker In Action (1st and 2nd)

• Technical Proofer - Docker in Action

• Technical Proofer - SOA Governance in Action

Niek shaped the DevOps topic for Atos, advising and coaching Atos and clients on DevOps. He was key player in the Atos DevOps community and was involved in the Atos DevOps Academy.

Niek advised Rijkswaterstaat for migration to a ServerBus (ESB) based platform. He was responsible for the architecture and design of the platform.

Niek design and implement a new platform for Siemens Healthcare. The platform was based on a SOA (microservice) architecture and was build on top of Java Spring.

Niek design and implement a new platform for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to handle administrative processes around treaties. The platform was based on a SOA (microservice) architecture and was build on top of JBoss, Java EE and Activity BPM.

Niek was responsible for the architecture and design of the Continuous Integration platform for ASML. The platform was based on SVN, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonar, Gradle and Maven.

Niek was responsible for the design and implementation of the Dimpact platform. The platform was based on a SOA (microservice) architecture and was build on top of Java Spring, JBPM, JPA, JMS, and JAX-WS.

Niek helped a team to met the deadline for a Java project.

Niek implement a B2C web application for marketing to target consumers. The application was implement base on Java Spring and Google Web Toolkit.

Niek was contractor via Bergson.

Niek was responsible for troubleshooting and developing software fixes in the Ericsson VPN platform for telecom.

Master of Science (MSc)

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