Age Mooij
Staff Engineer at Energie Data Services Nederland (EDSN) B.V.
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAge Mooij is a staff engineer with 16 years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams from product conception to production. He specializes in Scala-based architectures (with notable contributions to the popular spray library and educational scala-labs exercises) and has applied those skills across payments, event streaming, and digital twin platforms. Comfortable as both hands-on implementer and technical lead, he designs simple, consistent APIs and scalable pipelines while championing automated testing and developer craftsmanship. He has driven migrations from monoliths to service platforms, built Kubernetes-native streaming operators (Cloudflow), and architected multi-PSP payments systems at scale. Beyond day-to-day engineering he founded the Dutch Scala Enthusiasts meetup and regularly speaks at conferences, reflecting a commitment to community and knowledge sharing.
16 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computing for the Humanities, Computing for the Humanities at University of Groningen
Dutch, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
data-modeling10
http10
scala10
rest-api10
http-client9
xml8
akka8
junit6
sbt6
apple-push-notifications6
java6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scala-labs/scala-labs
Aug 2009 - Dec 2009
A collection of hands-on programming exercises aimed at teaching you to program in Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Age primarily focused on implementing the core functionality for a Twitter status application using Scala. Their work involved defining data models such as `TwitterStatus`, `TwitterUser`, and related utility classes. They also contributed to integrating with external services by leveraging HTTP client libraries to fetch data. The user also created unit tests to validate the functionality of these classes.
hands-onfunctional-programmingteachinghandsscala
spray/spray
Oct 2012 - Sep 2013
A suite of scala libraries for building and consuming RESTful web services on top of Akka: lightweight, asynchronous, non-blocking, actor-based, testable
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Age primarily contributed to the `spray/spray` repository, a Scala library for building RESTful web services. Their work included adding new features to the `httpx` module, such as transformers for manipulating HTTP headers and a method to remove headers by type. They also refactored and improved the unmarshalling capabilities of the library by moving methods and adding unit tests. Furthermore, the user addressed a compiler warning in an example and enhanced the logging functionality.
web-services-restfulon-topnon-blockingwebtransportwebclient
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