Dennis Van Der Bij
Senior Software Engineer at SwissBorg
Switzerland
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDennis Van Der Bij is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend systems for the financial and crypto space, currently building resilient trading and onboarding infrastructure at SwissBorg. He has deep expertise integrating exchanges (including FIX), designing data pipelines, and improving performance and resiliency for smart-engine/OMS systems. His academic background (MSc in Computer Science with top marks from EPFL and an MS in International and Sustainable Finance) informs a rare blend of rigorous CS fundamentals and domain knowledge in finance. Dennis is practical and hands-on—he open-sourced a split-brain resolver for akka-cluster early in his career—and has a history of teaching database and functional programming topics. Based in Switzerland, he focuses on using software to push innovation at the intersection of finance and distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, Scientific Degree with Advanced Mathematics, High School, Scientific Degree with Advanced Mathematics at Lycée Saint-ExupéryMaster of Science - MS, International and Sustainable Finance, Master of Science - MS, International and Sustainable Finance at Business School LausanneBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 5.55/6, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 5.55/6 at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Dutch, French, English, German
Github Skills (66)
continuation10
lithium10
akka-cluster10
effects10
resolver10
concurrency10
streaming10
akka10
concurrent10
kafka10
partitioning10
asynchronous10
split-brain10
async9
reactive9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SwissBorg/lithium
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
Lithium - A split-brain resolver for Akka-Cluster
Contributions:3 releases, 645 commits, 97 PRs in 1 year 11 months
brainsplitresolverpartitioninglithium
Tattletales/chip
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Library to build apps on top of 1-to-many FIFO networks
Contributions:2 PRs, 90 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
fifoshieldapp-storeon-top
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.