Bolke De Bruin
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBolke De Bruin is an interim AI and product leader based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience blending hands-on engineering, security-savvy backend development, and strategic product leadership across banking and data platforms. He has led AI and analytics organizations at ING and managed EMEA operations for Astronomer, delivering production GenAI use cases rapidly (four in 90 days at ING Deutschland) and advising sovereign-wealth-grade products. A pragmatic engineer, Bolke contributes to prominent open-source projects—Apache Superset, Airflow, Atlas and Ranger—where his work spans authentication, Kerberos/SASL integration, timezone and lineage fixes, and license compliance tooling. He pairs enterprise-grade security and data governance experience with a track record of stabilizing and scaling remote desktop and RDP gateway systems for cloud-native deployments. Bolke holds an MSc cum laude in Business Information Management from the University of Amsterdam and combines product-first thinking with the ability to dive into code and architecture when needed.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science, Cum Laude, Business Information Management, Master of Science, Cum Laude, Business Information Management at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Italian
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Github Skills (66)
python10
apache-atlas10
authentication10
rdp10
websocket10
hadoop10
c1110
security10
c1710
javas10
remote-desktop10
auth10
apache-airflow10
pandas10
linux10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bolkedebruin/rdpgw
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Remote Desktop Gateway in Go for deploying on Linux/BSD/Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 8 reviews, 195 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bolke primarily focused on implementing and refactoring core functionalities of the Remote Desktop Gateway. Their work involved resolving port and server issues, ensuring stable connections, and integrating websocket communication. They developed and integrated features to allow clients to connect through websockets and the legacy protocol. The user also made improvements, such as the addition of user authentication.
bsdgokuberneteslinuxremote-desktop
apache/airflow
Jul 2015 - Jan 2026
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:260 reviews, 389 PRs, 164 pushes in 10 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bolke primarily contributed to enhancing the security and functionality of the Apache Airflow, with a focus on integrating Kerberos authentication and improving the Celery execution environment. They added support for generating time zone aware objects and for adding file and source lineage support. They refactored various aspects, including the database layer to allow for multi-threading and improved efficiency in data manipulation.
airflowapache-airflowapachepythonscheduler
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