Champion
Jan Ouwens
Yoink
Jan is a senior developer, trainer and speaker at Yoink in the Netherlands; he is interested in back-end systems, functional programming and languages. He has worked in various fields, such as banking, retail, law enforcement, transportation and electron microscopy, but he is perhaps best known for being the author of EqualsVerifier, a tool that rigourously tests Java's equals and hashCode methods in a single line.
Badges 9
Talks 6
- Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2025
Fantastic languages and what to learn from them
- Devoxx Belgium 2023
Building a Bullsh*t Language
- Devoxx Belgium 2022
Don't hack the platform ☠️💣💥
- Devoxx Belgium 2022
Panel: Exploring Sustainability in Tech Without the Guilt-Trips
- Devoxx UK 2021
Fantastic languages and what to learn from them
- Devoxx Belgium 2017
Not all equals methods are created equal








