Merlijn Boogerd

Merlijn is a versatile software engineer with experience across development, architecture, and DevOps. He focuses on identifying and removing bottlenecks within software organizations, enabling teams to deliver business value faster and more consistently. With a strong systems mindset, he helps teams build more effective and sustainable solutions.

Merlijn has a broad background in software engineering, spanning development, operations, architecture, and technical leadership. This allows him to look beyond individual disciplines and focus on what truly helps teams and organizations move forward.

His work centers on improving systems, both technical and organizational, by identifying and resolving bottlenecks that limit the flow of business value. He combines hands-on engineering experience with a strong systems mindset and a deep interest in how people and technology interact.

With a background in Computer Science and Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Merlijn developed a lasting interest in intelligence in both human and artificial forms. With the rise of AI in software engineering, he actively experiments with AI-assisted workflows and applies them to improve productivity and quality, sharing these insights to help others work more effectively.

Trainer expertise

Disciplines

Software Development

Upcoming courses

Scala Advanced Developer

Take your Scala skills to the next level over three intensive days. Master local reasoning and composition as guiding principles — from algebraic data types and the Cats ecosystem to concurrent streaming with Cats Effect and FS2, event-sourced architectures with Pekko, and a production-ready capstone project.

Back-End Development
Scala
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Kotlin Multi Platform Training

Build confidence with Kotlin Multiplatform in a hands-on foundation workshop. Learn where shared Kotlin code creates value and how teams can adopt it gradually in Android and iOS products.

Back-End Development
Kotlin
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AI Software Factory Engineering Foundation

AI Software Factory Engineering Foundation is a practical, high-intensity course for senior software engineers and hands-on technical leaders who are already fluent with agentic coding tools and will use Claude Code during the course. Over 9 sessions, you will learn how to make the system in which your AI writes code more effective and how to strategically spend your human attention when developing software with AI. The concepts and techniques in this course also lay the foundations for building your own software factory.

Agentic AI
GenAI
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Claude Code Mastery Training

Hands-on Claude Code course for software engineers. Build custom skills, hooks, and MCP servers across 2 days with a real codebase. Online or in-person.

ai
Claude
2 days
In Person

Next:

13 – 14 Jul, 2026

From:

€1795

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Building Smart Applications with Agentic AI for JVM developers (Java/Kotlin)

Ship intelligent features to production—not prototypes. While others struggle with LangChain theory, you’ll master semantic search, RAG systems, and multi-agent workflows using battle-tested Spring-AI and LangChain4j. Deploy AI that actually works in enterprise JVM apps.

Back-End Development
GenAI
Kotlin
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