Jan Boonen
Senior Software Crafstman @ the/experts.
Tilburg, The Netherlands
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Jan is an experienced solution architect with over 15 years of experience as Kotlin/Java developer. He loves to combine architecture and coding as this is the sweet spot to invent clever, solutions that have an impact in society.
With a MSc. in Geophysics he has a natural interest in geospatial technology, climate change and maps. He has mainly leveraged these for the public interest in assignments for Dutch government agencies.
In his spare time he practices photography with a focus on street and documentary photography. Living in a university town, he is engaged in a project that supports students and young professionals in the area of well-being and meaning.
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Navigating Java’s geospatial world
In the past decade, digital maps and location-based services have become a natural part of daily life — from digital maps to location sharing and geographically enhanced software. The complex field of geospatial data and functions has found its way to end users: Points of Interest, Routing, open geodata and sharing live locations. In other words: spatial is not special anymore. Yet developers can easily get lost when integrating geospatial data and location intelligence in their applications.
This session introduces the fundamentals of geography, geometrical operations, spatial data and open standards. Having your backpack filled with these tools you can start crafting your first app and integrate it with other geospatial mapping tools.
Tackling challenges in cross-cultural workspaces
Working in international teams often leads to misunderstandings that have nothing to do with code, architecture, or skills — but everything with culture. Collaborating with people is already hard, but cultural differences require additional awareness and skills. Over the past 20 years I have struggled to find healthy and effective ways to work in a cross-cultural context. In this session I will share my learnings and help you better understand how people from different contexts think and act.
If you are working in a culturally diverse team, working with clients abroad, or simply want to join a highly interactive session (without live coding), this session is for you. Together we’ll explore a few practical concepts from social psychology and run a short survey to reflect on how culture influences our behavior and decision-making.
You will leave with concrete insights and practical techniques that you can immediately apply in your daily work.
Tip: bring your colleagues so you can learn from each other and apply these principles together.
Putting your software on a low-carb diet
Our climate is heavily influenced by carbon dioxide emissions resulting from human activity. With AI captivating our society, emissions caused by software solutions are rapidly increasing. The good news is that you can help reverse this trend! As a responsible software engineer, you want to minimize the environmental impact and e-waste of your products. Join the Green Software movement, which provides practical and accessible tools to reduce the carbon footprint of your work.
In this talk, you will explore measures that can be implemented at the architectural, code, and infrastructure levels. Finally, you will learn how to ensure these measures are effective and upheld by your colleagues. This helps architects and engineers to understand how they can contribute to Corporate Sustainability Reporting (CSRD) as demanded by the European Green Deal.
Spring I/O 2025 Sessionize Event
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