Bart Brinke
Thesis Intern at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBart Brinke is a data-driven software engineer and Master’s student in Data Science & Business Analytics with 17 years of professional experience, currently completing a thesis internship at KLM in Rotterdam. He blends practical engineering—evidenced by backend contributions to open-source Ruby tools like the well-regarded Brakeman security scanner and a request log analyzer—with applied data science skills used to build and deploy NLP models for a B2B SaaS product. His background spans customer-facing roles and product analytics, giving him a knack for translating business problems into data-informed, production-ready solutions. Known for pragmatic refactors and lightweight visualizations (ASCII graphing in log analysis), he favors readable, maintainable code and measurable impact.
18 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
vwo, vwo at CSG AugustinusMaster's degree Data Science and Business Analytics, Master's degree Data Science and Business Analytics at University of Amsterdam
Github Skills (11)
security10
ruby-rails10
vulnerabilities10
rails10
static-analysis10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
erb8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
wvanbergen/request-log-analyzer
Aug 2008 - Oct 2014
Create reports based on your log files. Supports Rails, Apache, MySQL, Delayed::Job, and other formats.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:303 commits, 5 comments in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bart primarily focused on enhancing the request log analyzer's functionality by introducing features like timestamping and an ASCII-graph visualization. They modified existing code to include timestamps in the logs and implemented an ASCII-based graph for request time analysis. The code modifications involved changes to the log parsing and summarization logic.
logfilemysqlrails
presidentbeef/brakeman
Mar 2013 - Jun 2013
A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Bart primarily contributed to improving the security scanner, Brakeman, for Ruby on Rails applications. Their work involved refactoring code, specifically in the `check_link_to` class, by breaking down functions and removing code duplication. They implemented a fall-through mechanism in the argument checking process and optimized the codebase by switching from `map` to `each`. Additionally, they refactored the report generation, creating a renderer object for HTML output.
ruby-on-railssecurity-vulnerabilitystatic-analysisrubyrails
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