Alexander Van Oostenrijk
Chief Technology Officer at Independent Software (Mozambique)
Maputo, Portugal
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Top SchoolAlexander Van Oostenrijk is a hands-on CTO and founder with two decades of experience building full-stack web applications, GIS mapping systems, Android OpenGL apps and high-performance databases across Europe and Africa. Based in Maputo and fluent in Portuguese, he has led teams and delivered mission-critical web and mapping platforms for government, NGOs and private clients while running his own software business since 2015. His work blends pragmatic product focus with deep technical craft—he’s comfortable from UI and spatial tooling down to database optimization and custom CMSes. Notably, he taught functional programming (Haskell/Clean) early in his career, a background that informs his attention to robust architecture and clean code.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Radboud UniversityPortuguese language, Portuguese language at Utrecht UniversityB.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at HAN University of Applied SciencesStedelijk Gymnasium Arnhem
English, Dutch, Portuguese, French, German
Stackoverflow
4,704reputation
769kreached
204answers
3questions
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Github Skills (57)
reader10
converter10
dotnet10
styled-components10
dbase10
rtf10
adventure10
php10
code-generation10
inform710
csharp10
javascript9
typescript9
browser9
react9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
henck/dBASE.NET
Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
dBASE reader for .NET
Contributions:1 review, 60 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 1 month
dbasedotnetcsharpreader
henck/rtf-html-php
Aug 2015 - Oct 2021
RTF to HTML converter in PHP
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 56 commits in 6 years 2 months
converterrtf-to-htmlphphtml-converterrtf
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