Curriculum Vitae

Remco Kortekaas

  • Data Engineer
  • Arnhem, NL
  • 10-10-1989

About

Experienced Data Engineer with a demonstrated history of working with (big) data systems. Skilled in Data Engineering & Analytics, E-commerce, Adobe Creative Suite, Web Design and Software Engineering & Design. Strong Scientific Background with a Double Degree Master in Computer Science focused on Software Services & Architectures from EIT Digital Master School. Love for contributing to exciting new concepts that help positively shape our planet of tomorrow.

Proficient in: Dutch English

Interests

codinghikingdesign
datanaturephilosophy
IoTtennisguitar

Certificates

Microsoft MCSA Python for Data Science | June 2019
Microsoft MCSA Azure Big Data | 70-776 | April 2019
Microsoft MCSA SQL Server 2016 | 70-761 | March 2019
Microsoft MCSA Power BI | 70-778 | March 2019
Microsoft MCSA Excel | 70-779 | March 2019
Microsoft MCSA SSAS | 70-768 | Developing SQL Data Models | March 2019
Microsoft MCSA SSIS | 70-767 | Implementing a SQL DWH | April 2019
SCRUM.org PSM1 | Professional Scrum Master | April 2019
Smart Data People | Business Skills/Soft Skills Training | April 2019

Education

Business Intelligence Traineeship
Smart Data People | 2020 Fulltime | Nijmegen

Education and certification in front- as well as backend technologies in the Business Intelligence domain. This traineeship is tailored to graduated academic professionals with an interest in data analytics. In my experience it was a highly personalised and professional traineeship in which I have learned a lot. Also, they found a cool job for me at the ABT Construction Engineering company.

www.smartdatapeople.nl

Double Degree Master | EIT Digital Master School
University of Trento | 2016-2017 Fulltime | Trento, Italy
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid | 2017-2018 Fulltime | Madrid, Spain

In 2018 I graduated from the EIT Digital Master School. During two years I majored in Software Services & Architectures at UPM in Madrid and UNITN at Trento. It was the first time I went away for a longer time and it was a great experience. I met a lot of nice people and made some new friends. Besides the technical program, there were some Innovation and Entrepreneurship related courses. These courses culminated in an IoT related summerschool in Stockholm. A great experience full of presentations and business cases.

www.eitdigital.eu

Bachelor – Technology Management (IT Track)
University of Groningen | 2011 – 2015 Fulltime | Groningen

I completed my bachelor Technology Management at the Economics and Business Faculty of the University of Groningen in januari 2015. 181 ECTS in total and my average mark was 7.1.

www.rug.nl

Propedeuse – Medical Science
University of Nijmegen | 2009 – 2011 Fulltime | Nijmegen

At first I decided to study medicine. After some time I realized that this was not the right path for me. So when I finished my propedeuse I left Nijmegen to study Technology Management in Groningen.

www.ru.nl

Secondary Education – Gymnasium (Nature & Health profile)
Stedelijk Gymnasium Arnhem | 2002 – 2009 Fulltime | Arnhem

I finished my secondary education in 2009 after failing the exams in the previous year. In the end I managed to get a 7.0 as average grade. This was just enough to get into medical school.

Extracurricular

IoT Summerschool – Internet of Things and Business Transformation
EIT Digital Master School | 2018 2-weeks | Stockholm

Two weeks full of interesting talks and exercises about IoT related innovation. The main assignment for our group was to find and develop a business venture with the potential of exceeding EUR 10 million turnover in 5 years. We came up with BeeBand, an IoT watch for parents to monitor their children. I presented the idea to an external jury and they were pleased. After the first presentation they promoted us to the final round to compete with other remaining groups. Unfortunately we did not win this.

Junction Hackathon
hackjunction.com | 2017 1-day | Helsinki

First prize – Industrial Internet Challenge. Together with my team (3 people), we developed a prototype for making sustainable choices when buying consumer electronics products. Project can be found on my github.

www.hackjunction.com

Military Business Improvement Challenge
University of Groningen | 2013 1-week | Groningen

Part of a team (4 members) with of task of developing a business proposal to improve the efficiency of the 43e mechanized brigade. Our solution consisted of proven lean six sigma methods to improve the efficiency of operations in peace mode.

Extracurricular Course on Entrepreneurship
University of Groningen | 2014 6-weeks | Groningen

Six week course on the principles of entrepreneurship with speakers from multiple disciplines.

Magazine Committee – Chairman
Study Association TeMa | 2012 – 2013 Parttime | Groningen

Creating the magazine for our study association. Activities included: Interviewing professors, designing template for magazine, writing content and managing the process.

IT Committee – Chairman
Student Association TAM (Tennisclub Albertus Magnus) | 2012 – 2013 Parttime | Groningen

Maintenance TAM website. I also developed a wordpress site for TAM’s main tournament: The TAM Open.

Bar Committee – Member
Student Association TAM (Tennisclub Albertus Magnus) | 2011 – 2012 Parttime | Groningen

Tapping (and drinking) beers at the clubhouse.

Symposium Committee – Acquisition
Student Association TAM (Tennisclub Albertus Magnus) | 2011 – 2012 Parttime | Groningen

Organizing the symposium for my study association TeMa. Activities included: Designing the brochure, promotional work, calling companies to participate.

Technical skills

Data Engineering: DBT, SQL Server, Neo4j, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elastic, Azure Cloud Services (ADLS, ADF, Synapse), Data Lake, Data modelling, UML, ORM, ERD, Python, Pandas, Numpy, R, SQL, Apache Spark, Jupyter Lab, Delta Lake, SSIS, SSAS, Power BI.

Software Engineering: Python, Django, C#, ASP.NET Core, Scala, Javascript, Node, Express, Vue JS, Jquery, HTML, CSS, PHP, WordPress, Git, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio.

Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Experience Designer, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Sketch.

Experience

Data Engineer
Freelance | 2021 – now Part-time | Den Bosch

Since 2021 I have been a freelance data engineer for Brabantwater. First I helped in further developing a data platform designed by Macaw. Later on, two new engineers joined the team and now we are migrating to a more robust stack including DBT, Databricks, ADLS in the Azure Cloud. Being part of two transitions into a new cloud-based data architecture there were enough challenges to tackle. It has been a great learning experience and joy to work for Brabantwater.

www.han.nl

Data Engineer
HAN | 2020 – now Fulltime | Arnhem

Currently I am employed at the Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen in Arnhem, NL. We are designing and building a new data lakehouse architecture in Microsoft Azure using technologies like Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, Delta Lake and Power BI. This is new and exciting stuff to be working on. I’m very happy with the chance to work with these cool technologies at the HAN University.

www.han.nl

Webdeveloper & Data Engineer
ABT B.V. | 2019 – 2020 Fulltime | Arnhem

After I finished the Smart Data People Traineeship I started working at the building construction firm ABT in Velp. During this time I developed the first Data Warehouse (Kimball) for ABT. This had mostly employee data in it and it needed to reflect the recent organizational changes.. To feed the DW I created a Django application for the administration of employees and knowledge groups within the company. My first encounter with Django was a pleasant one. Building the app was much fun. I also worked together with two colleagues to create a shareholder certificate administration system in ASP.NET Core. All these projects were great to work on.

www.abt.eu

IoT Intern at Kresco
Kresco | 2018 Fulltime | Nieuwkuijk

To finish my master program I found an internship at a local company in the Netherlands called Kresco. At the time this company was taking its first steps in IoT prototyping. It was my task to come up with a reference architecture to base future IoT projects on. This architecture needed to be scalable, secure and reliable using technologies that were familiar to the company. I had a lot of fun designing the architecture and also get some experience with the ETL of streaming data. The data was sent from a miniature toilet into spark, kafka, mongodb and the elastic stack (elasticsearch, logstash, kibana).

www.kresco.nl

Webshop Owner
HIMALAYAN | 2016 – now Parttime | Arnhem

After my travel in Nepal I started this webshop in januari 2016. HIMALAYAN sells fairtrade hemp backpacks made in the rural areas of the Himalayas. Activities vary from webdesign / development to setting up internet marketing campaigns and doing bookkeeping and logistics.

www.himalayanbagshop.com

Travelling in Nepal
Nepal | 2015 – 2016 Fulltime | Nepal

Travelled for three months through Nepal about half a year after the big earthquake. At the time there were a lot of problems in Nepal – no fuel from neighbour India because of political issues and many people still not having homes. This was quite painful to watch but the himalayas were magical. Anapurna circuit is one of the best things I’ve done in my life and I recommend it to everyone.

www.flickr.com/photos/himalayanbagshop

Product Owner / Solutions Architect
Beslist.nl | 2014 – 2015 Fulltime | Arnhem

Product Owner of a scrum team to help solve problems that occured with a new cost per sale payment model. After some work, our job was done correctly and invoices for 2014 could be sent succesfully. I also had a role in the design and coordination of a company wide migration to a netto cpc payment model. Nearly all deparments were involved and in the end, our thorough preparations paid off. One of the biggest changes in the history of beslist.nl was a fact.

www.beslist.nl

Magento developer
Vitadvice B.V. | 2012 – 2014 Parttime | Groningen

Developing and maintaining magento webshops.

www.cosmetix.nl, www.vitamineoutlet.nl

WordPress developer
Younguitzenden B.V. | 2012 – 2014 Parttime | Groningen

Designing and Developing wordpress website to keep employees up to date about upcoming events. I also worked in catering at small foodshops at festivals.

www.younguitzenden.nl

Webshop assistant
Athlete.nl B.V. | 2012 – 2013 Parttime | Groningen

Internet marketing activities, linkbuilding, developing blog & writing content.

www.athleteshop.nl

Webshop assistant
Yourskin.nl B.V. | 2011 Parttime | Groningen

Customer service, maintenance of magento webshop, processing and shipping orders, affiliate marketing, designing banners.

www.yourskin.nl

Catering Staff
Cafe Opera | 2010 Parttime | Nijmegen

Serving drinks.

Temporary Worker
Asa student | 2010 Parttime | Arnhem

Gardening, cleaning and serving food.

Webdesign Company
CBWDesign | 2009 – 2011 Parttime | Arnhem

Together with Hugo Romer I started CBWDesign. A small company to help SMEs build their websites. Cool experience which has been of help in later projects.

Stocking shelves
Super de Boer | 2005 – 2008 Parttime | Arnhem

First job.