Anna Baas
Data Engineer RWS Datalab
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAnna Baas is a data engineer with 11 years of experience, currently managing software lifecycle, deployment, and data product quality at RWS Datalab in Utrecht. She blends deep database expertise—self-styled as a "database therapist"—with engineering skills across Python, .NET, Java, and cloud platforms, and has contributed Microsoft SQL Server support to the popular testcontainers-python project. Her background includes large-scale data migrations, mentoring, and building automated test suites and APIs for enterprise clients. Known for optimizing performance, security, and developer experience, she also brings a humanities-informed perspective from studies in history and philosophy of science that aids pragmatic problem framing.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Minor, Geschiedenis en filosofie van de natuurwetenschap, Minor, Geschiedenis en filosofie van de natuurwetenschap at Universiteit UtrechtInformatica, Informatica at Open UniversiteitNiet voltooid, Physics, Niet voltooid, Physics at Universiteit Leiden
Dutch, English
Github Skills (12)
sql-server10
databases10
docker10
test-container10
database-administration10
admin10
sql10
python10
dockers10
database10
pytest9
testing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
testcontainers/testcontainers-python
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
Testcontainers is a Python library that providing a friendly API to run Docker container. It is designed to create runtime environment to use during your automatic tests.
Role in this project:
Backend & Database Engineer
Backend & Database EngineerContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Anna's contributions primarily revolved around adding support for Microsoft SQL Server to the testcontainers-python library. They implemented the `SqlServerContainer` class, configured database connection parameters, and integrated it with testing frameworks. The user also addressed documentation, added testing, and updated setup files to incorporate the new database support. Furthermore, they replaced the initial implementation of pymssql with pyodbc and addressed code style issues.
python-libraryapipythontest-automationtesting
annabaas/scriptjes
Apr 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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