Bas Kiers
Senior Software Engineer at Contentful
Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBas Kiers is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems and developer-friendly APIs, currently shaping Contentful’s public GraphQL API and content distribution platform using Node.js, TypeScript and AWS. He has a strong back-end pedigree across real-time event processing (Kafka), serverless architectures and CI/CD/DevOps, with hands-on experience at Schiphol, Getir and TradeCast driving operational tooling and high-throughput services. Comfortable across the stack, Bas pairs pragmatic engineering with product-minded thinking—having delivered real-time dashboards used by multi-discipline operations and architected highly scalable serverless products. Based in Emmen, Netherlands, he brings a collaborative, teach-and-learn ethos and a knack for turning complex event-driven requirements into reliable production systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Propedeuse, Technische informatica / Computertechniek / Technische computerkunde, Propedeuse, Technische informatica / Computertechniek / Technische computerkunde at Christelijke Hogeschool WindesheimBachelor of Science (BSc), Informatiewetenschappen (Information sciences), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Informatiewetenschappen (Information sciences) at Universiteit Twente
English, Dutch
Github Skills (189)
google-analytics10
entity-model10
homey10
wrench10
stitch10
hosting10
javascript10
graphql-api10
appstoreconnect10
shared10
node-api10
serverless-offline10
cloudinary10
api10
sdk10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
athombv/com.netatmo
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:9 PRs, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
weather-stationnetatmonetatmo-weather-stationstation
BasKiers/esphome-devices
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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