wouter bolsterlee
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Dutch Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Full professional proficiency
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Latin Elementary proficiency
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French Elementary proficiency
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German Elementary proficiency
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Bio
Rory Koehein
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with Wouter. He’s best described as a broadly interested creative technologist, coffee-snob, and all-round good guy. A rare breed that I’d hire in a heart beat!
Ettore Benedetti
The trade-off that often needs to be made between the desire to have a solid, well-engineered, elegant system and the need to deliver it on a very tight schedule is well known. Wouter is a passionate technologist who can effectively strike such balance, and in the process engage, lead and motivate his team to push the envelope of innovation and have fun while doing that.
Rory Koehein
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with Wouter. He’s best described as a broadly interested creative technologist, coffee-snob, and all-round good guy. A rare breed that I’d hire in a heart beat!
Ettore Benedetti
The trade-off that often needs to be made between the desire to have a solid, well-engineered, elegant system and the need to deliver it on a very tight schedule is well known. Wouter is a passionate technologist who can effectively strike such balance, and in the process engage, lead and motivate his team to push the envelope of innovation and have fun while doing that.
Rory Koehein
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with Wouter. He’s best described as a broadly interested creative technologist, coffee-snob, and all-round good guy. A rare breed that I’d hire in a heart beat!
Ettore Benedetti
The trade-off that often needs to be made between the desire to have a solid, well-engineered, elegant system and the need to deliver it on a very tight schedule is well known. Wouter is a passionate technologist who can effectively strike such balance, and in the process engage, lead and motivate his team to push the envelope of innovation and have fun while doing that.
Rory Koehein
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with Wouter. He’s best described as a broadly interested creative technologist, coffee-snob, and all-round good guy. A rare breed that I’d hire in a heart beat!
Ettore Benedetti
The trade-off that often needs to be made between the desire to have a solid, well-engineered, elegant system and the need to deliver it on a very tight schedule is well known. Wouter is a passionate technologist who can effectively strike such balance, and in the process engage, lead and motivate his team to push the envelope of innovation and have fun while doing that.
Experience
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StartMail
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Netherlands
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Mar 2021 - Present
Full-stack engineering for the e-mail product offering. Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue.js, html, css, PostgreSQL, Linux, ci/cd, containers, etc. Full-stack engineering for the e-mail product offering. Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue.js, html, css, PostgreSQL, Linux, ci/cd, containers, etc.
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Open Source Community
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Open Source Developer
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Jan 2002 - Present
Author and maintainer of many open-source projects, some of which are the go-to solution in their niche and hence widely used, resulting in millions of downloads, thousands of stars, hundreds of messages, dozens of contributions, and donations totalling at least five cups of coffee. An incomplete overview: • Plyvel, fast and feature-rich Python bindings to LevelDB, an embedded key-value store, used by many data-intensive applications (plyvel.readthedocs.io) • jsonlines, a widely used Python library for jsonlines data (jsonlines.readthedocs.io) • Nothing to say: microphone shortcuts for Gnome (github.com/wbolster/nothing-to-say) • Emacs Lisp packages, e.g. integrations for direnv (github.com/wbolster/emacs-direnv), pytest (github.com/wbolster/emacs-python-pytest), Black (github.com/wbolster/emacs-python-black), and an ergonomic Vim layer for Colemak (github.com/wbolster/emacs-evil-colemak-basics) • HappyBase, a developer-friendly Python library for Apache HBase, a non-relational distributed database for Hadoop (happybase.readthedocs.io); the project established a de facto standard API, which became so popular that Google adopted it as an emulation layer for their competing managed Cloud Bigtable service (github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python-happybase) • Temporenc, a comprehensive binary encoding format for dates and times (temporenc.org), with a Python implementation (temporenc.readthedocs.io) Additionally, contributor to many other open-source projects, mostly by reporting bugs, testing unreleased software, and submitting code with fixes and new features. Notably, (retired) contributor to the Gnome desktop environment project: Gnome Foundation member; maintainer of multiple subprojects; major contributor to and coordinator of the Dutch translation effort; member of the project-wide internationalization (i18n) coordination team. Show less
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