Berend Sliedrecht
Software Engineer at Animo Solutions
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBerend Sliedrecht is a software engineer based in the Netherlands with six years of professional experience focused on full-stack development and self-sovereign identity solutions. At Animo Solutions he has worked on decentralized identity and BLOB handling, translating complex interoperability requirements into pragmatic implementations. He contributes to open-source projects such as the credo-ts TypeScript framework, where he improved attachment handling, browser compatibility, and added multibase/multihash/hashlink support—demonstrating attention to edge-case robustness and web platform constraints. His background includes hands-on support roles and short-term engineering stints that sharpened his troubleshooting and delivery skills. Berend combines practical product-minded engineering with a growing specialization in verifiable credentials and decentralized identity standards.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
HBO, ICT, HBO, ICT at Hogeschool Utrecht
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
decentralized-identity10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
client-websocket9
fetch9
base649
websocket-client9
websocket9
websockets-client9
react-native-component8
react-native8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
openwallet-foundation/credo-ts
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Typescript framework for building decentralized identity and verifiable credential solutions
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:632 reviews, 45 commits, 160 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Berend contributed to various aspects of the `credo-ts` framework, focusing on improvements related to attachment handling, browser compatibility, and hashlink encoding. Their commits include bug fixes such as addressing issues with Uint8Array conversion and browser support for fetch and websocket. The user implemented new features, including support for linked attachments, multibase, multihash, and hashlink encoders. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the framework's capabilities and addressing compatibility issues.
decentralized-identifiersidpverifiable-credentialshyperledger-ariesjavascript
animo/expo-mdoc-data-transfer
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
ISO/IEC 18013-5 Data Transfer Library for React Native
Contributions:12 reviews, 23 PRs, 66 pushes in 4 months
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