Lunch Lecture: Willem Pino
What happens in the 300 milliseconds between tapping your card and seeing "payment approved"? Follow a transaction to uncover a hidden world of banks, card networks, processors, and legacy systems that most engineers never think about.
Using Rootline as a concrete example, this talk shows how building software at a company differs from projects at university: gathering requirements, existing codebases, systems that can't go down, and the constant pressure of real users. You'll explore why projects fail and what separates teams that ship from teams that don't. Process can be bureaucracy, but it doesn't have to be. Learn to make it work for you.
Willem Pino is the founding engineer at Rootline, where he built the backend, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes infrastructure from scratch. Previously at Adyen in Amsterdam and San Francisco, he was an on-call engineer and team lead. He studied algorithmic complexity in Utrecht.
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Who, what, where, when...
- Who
- Committee for Lectures and Excursions
- What
- Lunch Lecture: Willem Pino
- Where
- RA 1501
- When
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Wednesday 4 February 2026
from 12:45
until 13:30
- Label
- Career
- Costs
- free
