Christo Erasmus
Architect at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolChristo Erasmus is an architect and seasoned engineering leader with a decade of experience building globally scalable systems at Booking.com, where he progressed from software developer to architect. Based in Amsterdam, he combines hands-on C#/.NET roots and systems administration expertise with a track record of leading teams and shaping platform-level architecture for high-traffic consumer services. He excels at turning complex business problems into pragmatic, resilient technical solutions and has experience spanning development, team leadership, and engineering management. Known for enabling others to build at scale, he brings a practical blend of operational DNA (MCSE/MCSA training) and deep product-focused engineering. An early-career background across South Africa and Australia gives him a pragmatic, cross-cultural approach to solving engineering and organizational challenges.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MCSE / MCSA / MCP-TS Network & Server Administration, MCSE / MCSA / MCP-TS Network & Server Administration at MicrosoftComputer Science Diploma Computer Science & Programming, Computer Science Diploma Computer Science & Programming at Cti South Africa
English, Afrikaans, Dutch
Github Skills (14)
binary-serialization10
dynamic-languages10
json9
deserialization9
serialization8
google-cloud7
terraform5
google-cloud-platform5
terraform-provider4
cloud-platform4
java3
cassandra3
apache2
quarkus1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
Sereal/Sereal
Jun 2016 - Nov 2019
Fast, compact, schema-less, binary serialization and deserialization oriented towards dynamic languages
Contributions:3 commits in 3 years 5 months
compactdeserializationbinary-serializationdynamic-languagesserialization
datastax/cassandra-quarkus
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
An Apache Cassandra(R) extension for Quarkus
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 24 days
cassandraapachequarkusapache-cassandrajava
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