Bram Avontuur
Principal Software Engineer at JW Player
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBram Avontuur is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and scaling backend systems, currently leading architecture and execution at JW Player from Eindhoven. He excels at diagnosing reliability and scaling bottlenecks and has built high-throughput services and auto-scaling pipelines for video transcoding, access-log aggregation, and real-time request handling. Deeply practical with Python, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and message queues like RabbitMQ, he pairs SQL expertise (Postgres/MySQL) and caching patterns with hands-on operational experience. His background includes early work in information retrieval and data platforms (Hadoop, Cassandra, Hive), which informs a systems-minded approach to data-intensive problems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that balance performance, reliability, and maintainability.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information & Communication Technology, Bachelor of Information & Communication Technology at Fontys University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (51)
minecraft10
user-interface10
astar10
mse10
media-player10
video-player10
mocking10
google-maps10
player10
xml10
pathfinding10
html5-video10
gradle10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stragulus/DCGRacer
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:51 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
stragulus/mp3blaster
Nov 2014 - May 2017
The official repo of mp3blaster
Contributions:1 release, 61 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 6 months
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