Brian Van Burken
Software Engineer at Creative View
Rhenen, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Van Burken is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and component libraries, currently contributing at Prima while running a long-term freelance studio. He blends a designer’s sensibility from his Multimedia background with deep engineering chops across Elm, Haskell, Elixir, React and Node.js, and has led front-end guilds, UI toolkits, and CI/architecture efforts at scale. Brian has a proven track record shipping bespoke e-commerce, logistics and warehouse systems, and has acted as build/release engineer updating high-profile package formulas for Homebrew. He excels at translating ambiguous customer needs into robust software and teams into self-sufficient owners, and outside work he channels the same endurance into ultra-marathons and mountain biking.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Community College/MBO, Multimedia Interactive Designer, Community College/MBO, Multimedia Interactive Designer at ROC A12Bachelor's degree/HBO, Informatics, Bachelor's degree/HBO, Informatics at Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen
English, Dutch
Github Skills (13)
homebrew10
verify10
verification10
checksum10
package-management10
build-automation10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
version-control8
elixir7
vim7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on updating formulas within the Homebrew package manager. Their commits involved updating the version and checksums of software packages, specifically Vim and Elixir. This indicates a role in maintaining and ensuring the availability of software through the package manager, likely related to build processes. Their updates to the Vim formula involved the updating of the tarball URL and sha256 hashes.
macoshomebrew
brianvanburken/ecmascript-playground
May 2018 - Jul 2020
Random stuff from playing with TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.js
Contributions:14 PRs, 36 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 2 months
node-jslanguage-designjavascriptfiddlejavascript-typescript
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