Bert Massop
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Quintor
Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBert Massop is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building robust web and backend systems across finance, utilities, and public sectors, currently at ING Nederland. He combines strong theoretical foundations from an MSc in Computing Science with practical delivery at organizations like Quintor, TenneT and DICTU, shipping reliable full-stack solutions and guiding teams through complex technical challenges. His open-source contributions to the Freenet project show a careful engineer’s eye—refactoring core classes, adding unit tests, improving performance and documentation, and hardening peer-probing logic. Comfortable across the stack, Bert balances backend performance work with frontend and deployment tasks, and has a history of maintaining community-driven projects and translations. Based in Zeist, he brings steady, methodical problem-solving and attention to detail that often reveals subtle correctness and performance gains.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computing Science / Algorithmic Data Analysis, Master of Science (MSc) Computing Science / Algorithmic Data Analysis at Utrecht University
German, French, English, Dutch
Github Skills (12)
testing10
javas10
refactoring10
java10
algorithms9
performance-optimization9
libcrypto7
cryptography7
network-programming7
crypt7
c-library7
crypto7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hyphanet/fred
May 2014 - Sep 2016
Freenet REference Daemon
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 reviews, 153 commits, 55 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bert primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `Location` class, fixing bugs and improving performance. They rewrote the class, optimized existing methods, added unit tests, and added improved documentation. Furthermore, the user contributed to the improvement of the code related to probe functionality, ensuring that only valid peer locations are included in the link length probe response, and sorting the reported link lengths.
distributeddaemonp2pfreenet
bertm/fred-staging
Mar 2015 - Dec 2024
Freenet REference Daemon (trunk, writable by all devs)
Contributions:56 pushes, 148 branches in 9 years 9 months
daemonwritabledevsfreebsdfreenet
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