Bart Enkelaar
Staff Engineer at bol
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBart Enkelaar is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience leading scalable platform and reliability efforts at bol.com, where he progressed from Java developer to founding the Site Reliability Engineering organisation. He blends hands-on full-stack development with SRE principles to balance innovation and stability, having refactored legacy systems into Java/Kotlin microservices and scaled data science infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, he has improved both front-end and back-end functionality for the popular Habitica project, including UI and payments-flow fixes. Based in Amsterdam, he brings an engineer’s curiosity informed by a BSc in Aerospace Engineering and a talent for tackling complex, cross-disciplinary problems. Outside work he channels creativity and teamwork as a singer in a Celtic folk band and pursues spaceflight enthusiasm, reflecting a pragmatic yet exploratory mindset.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Aerospace Engineering, BSc Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology
English, Dutch, French, German
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
expressjs10
vue10
nodejs10
vue-jsx10
css9
html9
bit8
mongodb8
mongodb-database8
habits8
testing7
git7
api7
apidoc7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HabitRPG/habitica
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 31 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Bart's contributions primarily focused on improving the Habitica application's front-end and back-end functionality. They addressed bug fixes, such as preventing user linking in code blocks and fixing chat support for regex characters in code blocks. The user also implemented code optimizations and refactoring of existing code, which improved overall code maintainability and performance. Further changes included contributions to user interface elements and improvements in the payments flow.
trackerexpressvuereactjsrole
benkelaar/bartenkelaar.com
Jan 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 8 months
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