Bas Van Gijzel
Software Engineering Manager at Nomic Foundation
North Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBas Van Gijzel is a software engineering manager with 12 years of experience combining deep expertise in compilers, formal logic and programming languages with hands-on product engineering. He has led and grown teams at Digital Asset and Nomic Foundation, owning language design, GHC-based compiler work and complex cross-layer specifications such as zero-downtime upgradable contracts for Daml. His background spans research-grade formalism (PhD in Computer Science) to production systems at Google and Couchbase, where he shipped backend services, developer tooling and developer-focused products like the Couchbase Playground. Known for balancing correctness and usability, he designs language and type-system features with an eye for secure, intuitive UX and operational viability. He also brings experience in developer advocacy and large-scale migrations, having driven API testing frameworks and Scala upgrades across sizable codebases. Based in North Hertfordshire, he pairs academic rigor with practical delivery to solve knotty language and tooling problems that others avoid.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of TwenteDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of NottinghamMSc Technical Artificial Intelligence, MSc Technical Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht UniversityVWO Natuur en Techniek, VWO Natuur en Techniek at Stedelijk College Zoetermeer
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (66)
tooling10
console-log10
smart-contracts10
javascript10
solidity10
debugging10
console10
typescript10
compile10
development-environment10
hardhat10
debug10
ethereum10
blockchain10
akka9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nebasuke/Dung
Nov 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
couchbase-examples/scala-quickstart
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Entry level Couchbase Scala tutorial/demo. Steps to build REST APIs to manage user profile CRUD operations.
Contributions:1 review, 25 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
entry-leveluser-profilecouchbasescalacrud
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