Barend Van Der Walt
Software Engineer at Hadrian
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBarend Van Der Walt is a pragmatic backend-focused software engineer with eight years of experience building reliable, scalable services across fintech, marketplaces, and infrastructure tooling. Currently at Hadrian he works in C# and Go on APIs, attack surface scanning modules and CI/CD optimizations that noticeably improved deployment speed and developer experience. Previously he built seller-facing tools at Catawiki and led zero-downtime knowledge-base and CRM synchronisation migrations at Luno, cutting content update latency by roughly 83%. Comfortable across cloud-native stacks (Kubernetes, AWS), Go, and .NET, he blends hands-on coding with mentoring and technical leadership. He gravitates toward complex integration challenges and observability improvements that reduce incident toil. Based in Amsterdam, he’s focused on deepening his Go expertise while delivering pragmatic, user-impacting backend solutions.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing (Hons, NQF 8), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Computing (Hons, NQF 8), Computer Software Engineering at Belgium CampusNational Senior Certificate (Matric), National Senior Certificate (Matric) at Hoërskool Uitsig
English, Afrikaans, Dutch
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Github Skills (123)
markdown10
launchpad10
pad10
spacex10
javascript9
dsa-algorithm9
api9
mapper9
database9
entity-framework9
azure-pipelines9
poco9
dotnet-core9
orm9
csharp9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bvdwalt/bvdwalt
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
bvdwalt/robofriends
Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
Following along with tutorial for udemy course - React
Contributions:12 PRs, 18 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years
reactjsreactreact-coursefollowing
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