Albert-jan Nijburg
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert-jan Nijburg is a technical lead with 11 years of professional experience and a long history of hands-on backend development, currently splitting leadership roles at Orbital and Farringdon from the UK. He has deep experience improving interpreter internals and language tooling through long-term open-source contributions to projects like Skulpt, where his work focused on refactoring core object and compiler systems. His career spans startups and established engineering teams—moving from senior engineering and management roles at Babylon and Trinket to applied backend work in telemedicine and product teams—bringing both technical breadth and delivery focus. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he blends systems-level programming with product-minded execution and occasionally “makes things” that ship. Outside of full‑time roles he has repeatedly taken on solo projects and developer-first initiatives, reflecting a taste for tinkering and architecture. He studied Computer Science at the Open University and consistently surfaces non-obvious fixes in complex codebases rather than just adding features.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Sciences, Computer Sciences at OpenUniversity
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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soap
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aop
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proxy
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soa
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wcf
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javascript
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Github Skills (20)
python10
javascript9
webservice9
soap9
object-oriented-programming9
interpreter9
proxy9
aop9
soa9
wcf9
emberjs9
compiler8
x509certificates6
browser6
bouncy-castle6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
skulpt/skulpt
Nov 2015 - Oct 2021
Skulpt is a Javascript implementation of the Python programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 458 commits, 242 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Albert-jan's commits primarily involve refactoring and modifying core components of the Skulpt Python interpreter. They are working on changes within the object system, compiler, and miscellaneous evaluation files. The focus appears to be on improving the interpreter's internal workings, with a specific emphasis on class-related features, including the handling of annotations and special methods like `__get__`.
python-programmingpythonjavascriptskulptprogramming-language
albertjan/PipeToCom
Jan 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 21 comments in 4 years 1 month
couplehyper-vcomporthypernamedpipe
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