Dave Smits
Product Owner at Realworks BV
Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDave Smits is a Product Owner and seasoned Microsoft-stack engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping .NET, Azure and UWP solutions, including HoloLens apps built with Unity. He combines hands-on development roots—ranging from Silverlight and WCF to modern cloud-native practices—with product leadership roles at Pandora Intelligence and now Realworks BV, favoring rapid prototyping and iterative delivery to maximize impact. Based in Utrecht, he pairs an MSc in Software Engineering with a track record across consulting and media tech, bringing both architectural discipline and practical delivery skills. Notably, his background spans front-end interactive systems for radio/media and immersive mixed-reality projects, showing a rare mix of real-time media sensibilities and enterprise software craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Information Technology, BSc, Information Technology at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesMSc, Software Engineering, MSc, Software Engineering at University of Amsterdam
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Github Skills (181)
cloud-computing10
linq10
windows10
windows-phone10
entity-framework10
azure-pipelines10
azure-pipelines-task10
change-tracking10
linux10
dotnet10
efcore10
database10
github-webhooks10
openvr10
schema-migrations10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
davesmits/WebHooks
Jun 2018 - Jun 2022
Libraries to create and consume web hooks
Contributions:1 review, 67 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years
reactreact-hooksconsumehookswebhooks
davesmits/MRBootcamp
Dec 2018 - Aug 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 issue in 6 years 9 months
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