Kevin Parkings

Java Developer Dutch English Senior - REMOTE EU - Available June 2026

Noordwijk-Binnen, South Holland, Netherlands

About

Senior Java Developer / Application Architect [ DUTCH | ENGLISH | ITALIAN | FRENCH ]Specialist in greenfield projects ( I have worked on or managed 12 )Specialist in securing REST APIs 27 years designing and developing complex Java systems. A full stack Developer, used to hitting the ground running and resolving problems unaided.I have years of consultancy experience and can offer a full solution: analysis, design, architecture, security and development.I have a track record of delivering high quality, adaptable software in short periods of time in both Dutch and English spoken teams.I am usually the most experienced developer on the team and happy to lead and coach up to senior level What I can offer - I can help analyse your requirements - I can design the architecture of your Java system. - I can design and configure the services - I can advise on suitable middleware and storage solutions - I can design and implement the application security - I can design and setup the front end structure - I can design, build and secure your REST Api’s - I can lease between teams. Dev, Product manger, testing, operations - I can lead the project / team - I can coach from junior to senior level - I can analyse your workflows and optimize them with softwareWhat I am looking for - 100% remote in Europe. - 110+ euros per hour ex tax for 40 hours per week - Long term projects where possible ( Minimum 3 months )Education - Honours Degree IT and Computing ( Open University ) - Diploma IT and Computing ( Open University )About MeI am originally from the UK and spent 16 years living in the Netherlands, eventually gaining Dutch citizenship. I now live in the south of Italy.I like to travel and learn languages. I spent a 8 years travelling between Noordwijk and Lille and now live in Scalea in the South of Italy where I have been coming for the past 20 years and now, with remote working have the possibility to live here full time. I have developed my own commercial product. Arenella-ICT. This is 100% my own product and used by 770+ IT recruiters and 54000+ IT Candidates for recruitment purposes.Skill Summary- 27 years experience- Spring ( Core, boot, security, data [DB and Elasticsearch], cloud, mvc, test )- Hibernate / JPA- Mockito / JUnit- Elasticsearch / Kibana- Kafka- Rabbit- Azure- Angular / Typescript- Monolith / Microservices / Event drivenDUTCH | ENGLISH | ITALIAN | FRENCH110 euros ph ex tax40 hours per week 100% remote- No hybrid- No Perm- No Payroll/[email protected] 643 220 866

Experience

  • Senior Java Developer / Application Architect at Ledger Leopard
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    A greenfield platform for the three biggest banks in the Netherlands. • I Designed a microservice event driven architecture • I Built Rest API’s • I Designed and Implemented security strategies X509, BasicAuth • I Designed and developed SpringBoot microservces • I Selected and implemented suitable middleware and persistence

  • Senior Java Developer / Architect / Owner at Arenella ICT
    Sep 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Lead Java Developer / Application architect A platform for IT recruiters to find available candidates • I Designed the architecture • I Implemented JTW based authentication/authorization with Spring Security • I Configured and built both Backend (Java) and frontend (Angular) • I Responsible for migrating angular and spring to latest versions • I Setup Elasticsearch configuration with SSL security enabled • I Used Spring Data for both JPA and Elasticsearch persistence • I Implemented Unit tests with Mockito

  • Intel471 - Senior Java Developer - Cyber Intelligence at Intel471
    Apr 2022 - Sep 2022 · 6 mos

    Working as senior Java developer on a cyber intelligence platform. Using microservices, Java, kafka, elasticearch

  • Senior Java Developer at RECOGNIZE
    Feb 2022 - Apr 2022 · 3 mos

    Short project to gain some Kotlin experience. The company needed someone for a short period. We were building a greenfield project based on Kotlin

  • Freelance Java - senior fullstack at Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND)
    Feb 2021 - Sep 2021 · 8 mos

    Greenfield project for the Dutch government using Java, Spring, Microservices, keycloak