I'm Joost 👋️ — I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Monzo. I'm interested in building resilient payment systems and distributed systems. Previously I’ve worked at Deliveroo and bunq.

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Processing payments safely at scale

February 8 2022 — At Monzo I work on systems that process millions of payments a day. In this post I explain how we make sure that all of those payments are processed safely and correctly.

Insights from Shape Up for managing projects

April 13 2020 — Use the best ideas and tools from Shape Up without having to overhaul your company's entire product development process.

Optimising a simple ActiveRecord query

April 12 2018 — When I started out at Deliveroo I wrote a short post on how to optimise a Rails ActiveRecord query.