Bas Van Oostveen
Company Owner at SECTION 9 B.V.
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBas Van Oostveen is a technology entrepreneur and engineering leader with 18+ years of experience architecting and running high-scale internet products, security platforms and data solutions across startups and enterprises. As owner of SECTION 9 and former co-founder/technical director roles, he has delivered systems handling tens of thousands of auctions per second, large-scale content and streaming platforms, and complex backend services including payments and fraud prevention. He blends hands-on engineering (including contributions to Hyperledger Sawtooth) with deep expertise in security, distributed ledgers and IoT, recently focusing on provenance, trusted identities and graph analytics. A force multiplier who builds teams and operational practices, he brings an uncommon mix of electronics, neuroscience/AI background and real-world incident response experience (e.g., hardening banking systems during Dutch DDOS campaigns).
18 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Metropolia University of Applied SciencesBachelor of Science Information Technology, Bachelor of Science Information Technology at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesNeuroscience, Neuroscience at RPTU Kaiserslautern-LandauElectrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Rens en Rens Electronica
Dutch, English
Github Skills (12)
distributed-ledger10
back-end-development10
python10
hyperledger-sawtooth10
distributed-ledger-technology10
blockchain9
git7
cprogramming-language5
c-language5
macos5
http-request4
pyyaml4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger-archives/sawtooth-core
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Core repository for Sawtooth Distributed Ledger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Bas contributed to the Sawtooth core repository by implementing features and fixing bugs. Their work included a build fix for macOS, specifically incorporating the `<random>` header file. They also implemented a rock-paper-scissors transaction family, including transaction logic, state management, and CLI interactions for the game. The user updated the project's dependencies and added licensing information to source files.
distributed-ledgersawtoothhyperledgersawtooth-lake
trbs/fallocate
Aug 2013 - Apr 2021
Module to expose posix_fallocate(3), posix_fadvise(3) and fallocate(2)
Contributions:1 review, 61 commits, 4 PRs in 7 years 8 months
posixexposeposix-fadvise
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