Summary
Dennis Breuker is a software engineer and educator with nine years of formal experience and a decades-long career that spans academia, industry, and leadership in software development and teaching. As Co-Coordinator of the Software Development profile and longtime lecturer at HAN, he blends hands-on software engineering, AI and mathematics expertise with practical course design and large-scale student coordination. He excels at knowledge transfer—creating and running courses for hundreds of students, introducing blended learning, and coaching teams and teachers to adopt effective practices. Earlier roles as a senior Java developer and project manager add production-grade development and team leadership to his profile, while a PhD in computer science underscores a research-minded approach to problem solving. Colleagues describe him as a people-oriented motivator who seeks intellectually challenging problems and consistently pushes for high quality in both code and education.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (dr), Computer Science, PhD (dr), Computer Science at Maastricht University
MSc, teaching Mathematics, MSc, teaching Mathematics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
MSc (drs), Computer Science, MSc (drs), Computer Science at Leiden University
Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish