Joost van der Meer
Staff Engineer, Platform · Northwind Systems
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fit
88
Reach
0.77
EV
6.8
Fit is the evidence against the brief. Reach is how likely they are to take the call. EV combines the two, and orders the list.
Why this candidate
- Owns the multi-region control plane end to end — the exact surface this role inherits.
- Took the platform team from four engineers to eleven without leaving the codebase.
- Two public conference talks on scheduler back-pressure in the last eighteen months.
Flags to verify1
- No direct experience at the transaction volume named in the brief.
Background
Eleven years in infrastructure, the last five on distributed control planes. Joined Northwind as its fourth platform engineer and now sets technical direction for the group. Before that, four years on storage internals at a mid-size cloud provider, including a migration off a single-region design that reads closely to the one described in this brief.
