Douwe Van Der Meij
Founder at Flipstream.io
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDouwe Van Der Meij is a founder and seasoned software leader with 11 years of professional experience building cloud-native back-ends and guiding digital transformations for startups and larger organisations. He leads Karibu Online, where he helps companies define IT roadmaps and staff to shed legacy systems and rapidly deliver bespoke software via the Fractal Forge platform, while also serving as Fractional CTO at Flipstream.io and heading IT development for a cutting-edge energy project at HEATEN. Technically hands-on from C++ and PHP to Python and Kotlin, Douwe has a track record of operationalising data engineering, digital twins and commercial software, and has contributed backend improvements to the popular InstaPy open-source Instagram automation project. He combines strategic architecture with everyday engineering—mentoring students in Python, big data and ML and translating complex domain needs into pragmatic delivery. Based in Haarlem, Netherlands, he blends entrepreneurial drive with academic rigour from a Master’s in Computer Science at the University of Twente.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of TwenteICT Lyceum, ICT Lyceum at Friesland CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at NHL Hogeschool
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Github Skills (18)
instagram10
selenium10
python10
selenium-ide10
webscraping10
automation10
automations10
celery9
apim9
api9
django-admin6
django-views6
django-rest-framework6
psycopg6
django6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
InstaPy/InstaPy
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
📷 Instagram Bot - Tool for automated Instagram interactions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 14 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Douwe contributed to the core functionality of the Instagram bot, focusing on improving the bot's interaction capabilities. The contributions include bug fixes related to Instagram API changes, improvements to image liking functionality, and the addition of a feed generator feature. The user also worked on updating and refining the bot's internal logic, including refactoring of code and improvements related to follow/unfollow operations.
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douwevandermeij/fractal-repositories
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:24 releases, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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