Breyten Ernsting
Senior Software Developer at Politwoops
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBreyten Ernsting is a senior software developer with 16 years of experience building backend systems in Python and a deep specialty in information retrieval, open data and govtech/civic tech. He founded Politwoops and has led production services that monitor and harmonize public data, combining data extraction, synchronization and pragmatic API design. His career spans research-driven projects at the University of Amsterdam to long-term impact work at Open State Foundation, delivering transparency tools like Open Spending and Nupubliek. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs backend engineering with frontend experience in Rails and Svelte, and often focuses on making messy, distributed public data usable for journalists and civic applications. Based in Amsterdam, he brings both entrepreneurial instincts and academic rigor from an MSc in Information Studies to solve real-world data problems.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Computer Science, Computer Science at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesMSc, Information studies, Human Centered Multimedia, MSc, Information studies, Human Centered Multimedia at University of Amsterdam
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (79)
data-api10
api9
twitter-streaming-api9
open-data9
monitoring8
typesense8
twitter-api8
twint7
media-keys7
twitter7
nodejs7
searching7
journalism7
streaming6
sapper6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openstate/kamervragen
Aug 2016 - Jan 2018
Kamervragen, statistieken enzo ...
Contributions:194 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pythonenzoconfigurabledatamining
openstate/ori-search
Jun 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:226 commits, 89 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 5 months
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