Brord Van Wierst
Full-stack Developer at Demia
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolBrord Van Wierst is a full-stack developer with 11 years of experience, currently building data-integrity focused software in Barcelona and serving as CISO at a conversational language-learning startup. He brings hands-on backend expertise from contributing to the IOTA reference implementation—improving documentation, refactoring hash handling, and aligning APIs—which reflects a careful attention to maintainability in distributed systems. Comfortable across Java and web stacks, he has a track record of shipping production software from indie freelance projects to foundation-grade code. Open-minded and inventive by nature, he aims to create software that hasn’t existed before and enjoys collaborative problem-solving across product and security boundaries.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO, Natural science, HAVO, Natural science at Canisius College Berg en Dalse wegBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information and communication, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information and communication at Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen
Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
java10
javas10
api-design9
version-control7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
iotaledger/iri
Sep 2018 - May 2020
IOTA Reference Implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:154 commits, 71 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Brord primarily focused on improving the codebase by adding JavaDoc comments to API command methods, classes, and response objects to generate MDX documentation. They renamed methods and updated parameters to align with the JavaDoc and corrected typos, and also removed redundant files and comments. The user refactored the code related to hashes and worked on modifying and refactoring the existing codebase for the IRI project.
iotareference-implementation
iotaledger/iri-extensions
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
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