Authors - Freek - Essent IT

Freek is Essent's fictional engineer who you might now from the commercials on television. The articles are writen by a small team working at the IT department at Essent.

Spotlight on Essenters: Annelies van Dijk

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Annelies van Dijk, an Agile Coach at Essent.

Podcast: Front Row at the Backend Episode 6

At Essent, learning isn’t just about career growth—it’s about transformation. Through the Crafts Heroes program, employees gain not only technical...

Podcast: Front Row at the Backend Episode 5

How do you grow from a mid-level developer to a senior leader? At Essent, the Crafts’ Heroes Program is redefining career growth by dedicating 20% of...

Spotlight on Essenters: Paul Groenendaal

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Paul Groenendaal, a Product Owner at Essent.

Podcast: Front Row at the Backend Episode 4

When a Essent engineer asked "How can I continue to grow?", Essent created something unique. In this episode, Jimmy Radstok shares how...

Spotlight on Essenters: Panagiotis Doxopoulos

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today, we will chat with Panagiotis Doxopoulos, a DevOps Engineer at Essent....

Spotlight on Essenters: Aditi Paliwal

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today, we will chat with Aditi Paliwal, a Software Engineering Manager/Release Train Engineer at Essent....

Podcast: Front Row at the Backend Episode 3

In this episode of Front Row at the Backend, host JP (Jan-Pieter), a DevOps engineer at Essent, dives deep into the real-world application of agility...

Spotlight on Essenters: Karin Derks

Hi, I'm Karin Derks. I live in Eindhoven with my husband and son. In my free time, I enjoy being outdoors, playing padel, skiing, and spending...

Podcast: Front Row at the Backend Episode 2

In the second episode of “Front Row at the Backend”, host Jan Pieter (JP), a DevOps engineer at Essent, and his guest Annelies, an Agile coach and...

Podcast: Front Row at the Backend Episode 1

At Essent, agile means empowering engineers, learning fast, and continuously improving to deliver impactful results. Learn more about the wat of...

Spotlight On Essenters: Iryna Teliukh

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Iryna Teliukh, a Community Manager at Essent.

Spotlight on Essenters: Marloes van den Bragt - van de Wouw

Hi, I'm Marloes van den Bragt-van de Wouw and I am a software engineer at Essent. In my free time, I like to be outdoors, enjoy bouldering and I...

Spotlight on Essenters: Rob van Nistelrooij

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Rob van Nistelrooij, a UX Designer at Essent....

Spotlight On Essenters: Prince Kumar

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Prince Kumar, a DevOps Engineer at Essent....

Spotlight on Essenters: Bipul Singh

Hi, I'm Bipul Singh and I am a Solution Architect at Essent. I’m originally from India and in my free time I enjoy cooking, playing the keyboard...

Hackaton 2024

At Essent we are thrilled to share the success of our recent hackathon event, Watt-a-Hack. This annual event has become a highlight for our company,...

Spotlight on Essenters: Melih Korkmaz

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Melih Korkmaz, a Senior Frontend Engineer at Essent.

Spotlight On Essenters: Ismail Osman

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Ismail Osman, a IT Program Manager (trainee) at Essent....

Spotlight on Essenters: Ali Habib

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Ali Habib, a Senior Cloud Architect at Essent.

Spotlight on Essenters: Aaron Jacobs

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Aaron Jabocs, Cloud DevOps Engineer at Essent.

Spotlight on Essenters: Karol Muciek

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Karol Muciek, a Senior Cloud Architect at Essent.

Spotlight on Essenters: Toon Wijnands

Hi, I'm Toon and I am a Lead Enterprise Architect at Essent. In my free time I like to play the piano and used to play volleyball for a long...

Spotlight on Essenters - Paul Hoogstede

Welcome to this Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Paul Hoogstede, Release Train Engineer at Essent IT....

Spotlight on Essenters - Revathy Umapathy

Revathy joined Essent in November 2021, where she is a DevOps Engineer.
In this spotlight, we get to know her a bit better!

Spotlight on Essenters: Evelien van Blitterswijk

Evelien joined Essent in 2018. Starting as an individual contributor in the data domain, she has developed to the position of Manager of Platform and...

Spotlight on Essenters: Ilse van Baardwijk

Ilse coaches one of Essent's IT departments and their leadership on their collaboration, communications, behavior, quality, and way of working. In...

Spotlight on Essenters: Tom Voigt - Jansen

In this edition of "Spotlight on Essenters", we had the pleasure of interviewing Tom Voigt-Jansen, a DevOps Engineer Frontend at Essent IT....