{ speaking · workshops · exec briefings }
Talks that make
systems talk.
Integration architecture, MCP in production, and multi-system troubleshooting — from someone who presents platform architecture to banking C-levels for a living. Amsterdam-based, travels for good problems.
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What I talk about.
MCP in production: what the Azure Portal screenshots don't tell you
Running Model Context Protocol on Azure API Management for banking — security holes you must close manually, audit logging that doesn't hang your requests, and the IaC gap nobody mentions. Based on the published 4-part production guide.
Integration platforms that survive 3am
Designing banking integration platforms — contract enforcement, event-driven sync, observability first — from the architecture of Grand Central and SyncHub. Why "observable first" beats "feature first", and what breaks when you skip it.
Multi-system root cause analysis
How to debug failures that cross team boundaries: networking, auth, protocols, and timing. Lessons from enterprise incident response — including the time 800K users got locked out of their banking app, and why every fix needs a rollback plan.
Formats: conference talk, hands-on workshop, or executive briefing. Content gets tailored to the room — engineers get the policies and the code, leadership gets the decisions and the numbers.
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Bio & assets, ready to steal.
Copy-paste bio, third person, no superlatives to trim:
René Nijkamp is a Product & Integration Architect at Backbase, where he architects Grand Central, the platform connecting banks' core systems, payments and SaaS tools. With 17+ years spanning embedded payment terminals, mobile banking at ABN AMRO, enterprise incident response at Shell, and cloud integration platforms, he specializes in making systems talk — and in finding out why they stopped. He writes about Azure APIM and MCP at itsrene.nl.
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Get me on stage.
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