Alex Rothuis
Software Engineer at Mediquest
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Rothuis is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building maintainable, testable systems and guiding teams toward sound architectures and pragmatic testing strategies. Based in Utrecht, he blends hands-on backend work—contributing to the Gleam standard library—with consultancy and coaching roles that improve development practices, CI/CD, and long-term maintainability. His background as an IT lecturer and curriculum designer informs a strong emphasis on software quality, architecture patterns (hexagonal, DDD, CQRS), and modern testing approaches like property-based testing and mutation tests. Alex has applied this expertise across media platforms, enterprise content systems, and retail promotion domains, often as a freelancer who both architects solutions and levels up teams. He also holds cum laude legal training in Law & ICT, a less obvious asset that strengthens his approach to security, privacy and compliance when designing systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Laws (LL.M.) cum laude Law and ICT, Master of Laws (LL.M.) cum laude Law and ICT at University of GroningenVWO/Gymnasium NT (Natuur en Techniek / Nature and Technology), VWO/Gymnasium NT (Natuur en Techniek / Nature and Technology) at Het Erasmus
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
typesc10
typescript10
type-system10
gleam10
stl9
documentation9
text-manipulation8
strings8
api-design8
boolean-logic7
testing7
html6
xml6
simple-xml6
php6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gleam-lang/stdlib
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
🎁 Gleam's standard library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to Gleam's standard library, focusing on improving existing functions and adding new ones. The user addressed issues related to operator functions, documentation, and the internal workings of string and boolean operations. These changes included enhancing API documentation, adjusting function signatures, and refactoring internal methods for greater efficiency and clarity within the Gleam programming language.
gleamerlangjavascriptstandard-librarytypescript
arothuis/markdown-it-biblatex
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
A markdown-it plug-in for rendering citations and a bibliography inside markdown
Contributions:12 releases, 4 reviews, 22 commits in 2 days
bibliographycitationsplug-inrenderingrendering-citations
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