Jan Schutte

Jan Schutte
Occupation	Co-founder of ReJot
Known for	Co-founding ReJot
Education	University of Amsterdam

Jan Schutte is a Dutch software engineer and entrepreneur who is the co-founder of ReJot, a developer tools company that provides asynchronous data replication between services using database change-data capture. ReJot was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2025 batch.

Early life and education

Schutte studied at the University of Amsterdam, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (2015–2019) and a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence (2019–2021).

Career

Before founding ReJot, Schutte worked at Adyen, the Amsterdam-based global payments company. He joined Adyen in 2019 as part of the company's NextGen program and subsequently served as a Data Platform Engineer from 2021 to 2024. Prior to Adyen, he worked as a Junior Technology Consultant at ClickValue from 2016 to 2018.

In 2024, Schutte co-founded ReJot alongside Wilco Kruijer. The company develops an open-source synchronization engine designed to allow engineering teams within enterprises to share data across services without relying on synchronous API calls or heavyweight event streaming infrastructure. ReJot works by turning the write-ahead log of a database into an asynchronous communication channel between services, a technique rooted in change data capture. This approach allows data to flow between separate databases — such as PostgreSQL and MySQL instances owned by different teams — without requiring message brokers, outbox patterns, or additional middleware.

Developers using ReJot define what data to publish and consume using their database's native query language. These definitions are maintained within the application codebase alongside database migrations, integrating the data-sharing workflow into standard development practices. The company positions ReJot as an alternative to chained internal API calls in service-oriented architectures, arguing that decoupled, asynchronous data flow is more resilient to failures than synchronous request chains.

ReJot's command-line interface is distributed as an npm package, and the project's source code is hosted on GitHub. The company participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch and is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.