Authors - Freek - Essent IT

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

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Kevin van der Burg, Mobile Developer at Essent....

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Michiel Kouijzer, Product Manager Omnichannel at Essent....

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Nico Scherff, Manager Digital Workplace at Essent....

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Koen Ubbink, Data Engineer at Essent....

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Arjen de Ruiter, IT Director at Essent....

Essent faced a major crisis when the war in Ukraine triggered massive spikes in energy demand. Systems failed and customers struggled. This pushed the...

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

Essent Enterprise Architect Hein Dekkers explores how Agent AI is reshaping customer service and software development. By combining data, memory, and...

In this episode, Jan-Pieter and Lead Solutions Architect Sami dive into event-driven architecture (EDA) and how it transforms the way teams at Essent...

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

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Olivia Kaufmann a Scrum Master at Essent....

In this episode of Essent’s DevOps podcast series, host Jan Pieter (JP) speaks with Toon Wijnands, Head of Architecture at Essent, about how...

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Olivia Kaufmann a Scrum Master at Essent....

This episode explores how rethinking cloud teams from reactive support units to proactive strategic partners can unlock greater autonomy, speed, and...

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Thijs Oost an Product owner at Essent....

Scrum Master Yannick van der Wende shares how Essent’s data teams scaled from slow, manual releases to automated CI/CD pipelines delivering data twice...

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Sanjai Sankar, an DevOps engineer at Essent.

Scrum Master Yannick van der Wende shares how Essent’s data teams scaled from slow, manual releases to automated CI/CD pipelines delivering data twice...

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Nick van Osch, an Junior Cloud Engineer at Essent.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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