About
A specialist, not a generalist.
I'm Raul van der Zande, a software engineer focused on CI/CD and automated testing. Mekova started from one observation: teams build features faster than their delivery can keep up, and nobody owns the part in between.
So I deliberately do one thing: own a team's delivery pipeline and test automation and grow it. Not the whole cloud, not all of IT — but the route from pull request to production, and the tests that make that route reliable.
I work with a small number of teams at a time, each on a fixed day of the week. That way every team gets full attention, and there's time to keep the craft sharp.
Deliberately limited capacity: a small number of teams at a time.
Raul van der Zande
Founder of Mekova
How I work
Narrow and deep
One niche, done well, instead of a bit of everything.
Honest about fit
If it's not a fit, I'll say so — even when there's work on the table.
You stay the owner
Everything lives in your repositories, with documentation.
Visible work
Concrete improvements every week from a shared backlog.
Tools
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- Playwright
- Vitest
- Jest
- .NET · xUnit
- .NET · NUnit
Are you actively building, and are releases or tests getting harder?
Then this is exactly the right moment. Tell me briefly how you ship today; you'll hear from me within two working days.