Bjarn Bronsveld
Co-founder at Spectate
Papendrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBjarn Bronsveld is a pragmatic engineer-founder with 10 years of experience building developer-first infrastructure and SaaS products from the Netherlands. As co-founder of Lettermint he leads the technical stack for a GDPR-compliant, EU-hosted transactional email API focused on guaranteed deliverability, while also running Spectate and Realify. His background spans DevOps and full-stack roles—currently balancing hands-on platform work at Essent—with roots in back-end engineering and Android development. An active open-source contributor, he has improved back-end media tooling in the popular AzuraCast project, adding Liquidsoap enhancements and Stereo Tool support. Bjarn combines startup grit with production-grade operational discipline, favoring practical, engineer-friendly solutions over hype. He’s equally comfortable debugging infra at 2 AM as sketching product APIs for developers.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MBO, ICT-beheer / ICT-beheerder, BOL4, MBO, ICT-beheer / ICT-beheerder, BOL4 at ROC MondriaanMiddelbare School, HAVO, Middelbare School, HAVO at ISW Hoogeland
Dutch, English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
fm-radio10
php10
back-end-development10
streaming10
sql9
kotlin6
android-room6
kotlin-android-extensions6
android-notifications6
android6
firebase6
android-architecture-components6
firebase-performance6
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
AzuraCast/AzuraCast
Jan 2020 - May 2022
A self-hosted web radio management suite, including turnkey installer tools for the full radio software stack and a modern, easy-to-use web app to manage your stations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 11 PRs, 63 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bjarn primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the AzuraCast radio management suite. Their work involved enhancing Liquidsoap support by adding and improving the `liq_amplify` setting and related annotations. They also addressed minor bugs, migrated the `length` column to a decimal type for more precise song durations, and moved the `drop_metadata` command in Liquidsoap configurations. Furthermore, they contributed to adding Stereo Tool support.
webradioradio-stationwebcastshoutcasticecast
bjarn/jale
Nov 2020 - Jun 2022
Jale is a blazing fast local development environment for MacOS written in Typescript.
Contributions:5 releases, 67 reviews, 98 PRs in 1 year 6 months
macostypescriptenvironmentdevelopment-environmentnginx
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