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Vincent Kok

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Director of Platform Engineering at Goodnotes
📍 The Randstad, Netherlands

Vincent is the Director of Platform Engineering at Goodnotes with 20 years of experience scaling organizations. He spent 12 years at Atlassian, where he drove cloud transformation, built the Identity platform, and scaled Jira Search. He holds a Bachelor of Science from HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht.

After a long tenure at Atlassian, Vincent took a year-long sabbatical to travel across Europe in a campervan, embracing the open road and new cultures. He enjoys playing lunchtime soccer and is proud of his wifes entrepreneurial venture, highlighting his value for work-life balance and family.

He once gave a talk on how his team transformed the Confluence Cloud deployment pipeline from a slow, weekly process to daily releases.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
Director of Platform Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
The Randstad, Netherlands
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Platform Scalability
His career at Atlassian involved scaling Jira Platform Search for 100k+ users, and his current role at Goodnotes focuses on building secure, scalable collaboration for millions.
Engineering Culture
His leadership philosophy focuses on balancing excellence with enjoyment to cultivate a team culture that people genuinely love to be a part of.
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Career

Work history

2-2026
Director of Platform Engineering
Goodnotes
3-2025 - 2-2026
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Career Break
10-2022 - 3-2025
Head of Engineering - Jira Platform Search and Data Mobility
Atlassian
11-2021 - 10-2022
Senior Engineering Manager - Jira Platform
Atlassian
7-2019 - 1-2022
Senior Engineering Manager (Remote) - Trello
Atlassian
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Education
2000 - 2004
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
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