Authors - Roel Herckenrath - Essent IT

As Business Controller IT, Roel is responsible for the financial steering of the IT Department with financial planning & reporting, advice and accountability for the Digital Technology spend within Essent.

If strategy sets direction, people determine whether you’ll ever get there.For Emy, Obeya is more than just a way of working. It’s a way of making...

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

Testing SAP landscapes has traditionally been complex, slow, and often heavily dependent on manual effort. Within Essent’s SAP community, we have been...

When people think about Obeya, they often picture strategy walls, delivery boards, or dependency mapping. What they don’t immediately picture is...

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

With the right partner, the right methodology, and a willingness to move decisively, one can deliver significant change quickly without disrupting...

Planning often starts with ambition. But ambition alone does not create value.

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

If choosing Expo was a journey of discovery, migrating to Expo was a journey of patience, planning, and occasionally bribing CI pipelines with kind...

There’s a moment in every engineering team’s life when someone squints at the CI/CD dashboard, sighs deeply, and says, “There has to be a better way.”

If strategy tells you where you’re going, performance tells you whether you’re actually moving.

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....

“It’s better to have 80% of the work 100% done than 100% of the work 80% done.”

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....

Last week, we hosted a tech meetup at Essent's offices in Den Bosch, exploring the relevance of today's software engineering wisdom in the...

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 blog explores the unexpected parallels between knitting, crocheting, and computer programming. It highlights how fiber arts use logical...

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...

At Essent, we’ve reimagined customer support with Bolt, our award-winning AI-powered agent assist bot. Integrated into Microsoft Teams and built on...

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

At Essent we are always trying to provide our customers tips on how to save on their energy bill. One part of that is the banner in the app which will...

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...

From Incidents to Innovation: Building MergeMate for Automated Code Reviews

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...

Ants are remarkable creatures. Each one acts autonomously, following simple rules and responding to environmental triggers. Despite their simplicity,...

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

At Essent, our commitment to inclusivity goes beyond our internal culture—it extends into the wider community through initiatives like the Refugee...

Part 2 of the blog focuses on practical steps to enhance team autonomy, including automated testing, self-service IT processes, centralized access to...

At Essent IT, our ambition is to become The Energy Tech Company. To achieve this vision, we need to establish several key components, which we are...

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

Opening the Book on Neurodiversity: Insights from Community Members By Rob van den Berg and Steve de Vette....

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, we empower data scientists to be fully in control of the end-to-end lifecycle of data science models. Most of this lifecycle is covered...

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.

Welcome to a new Spotlight on Essenters! Today we will have a chat with Jacqueline van Arkel, a Conversational AI Engineer at Essent.

BUILDING A MONOREPO PLATFORM TEAM TO ENSURE FAST FLOW

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...

An Essent Case Study: How rebuilding our apps prepared us for the future and increased the app store rating by 1.5 points

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

At Essent our commitment to inclusivity goes beyond our internal culture—it extends into the wider community through initiatives like the Refugee...

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...

The DevOps Dilemma and HyperHub Conquering Complexity for Happy Developers....

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.

Robotic process automation (RPA) is a form of business process automation that is based on software robots (bots) or artificial intelligence (AI)...

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.

In large organisations such as Essent, monolithic systems such as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) play a critical role. Combining these systems...

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

In September 2022, due to the war in Ukraine and the announcement of a significant rise in energy prices, Essent's customers took a greater...

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

As a software application or system expands, it becomes increasingly important to have a method for tracing and creating a timeline of how the...

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....