Francois Steyn
Senior Software Engineer at Booking.com
Purmerend, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFrancois Steyn is a Senior Software Engineer based in Purmerend, Netherlands, with over a decade of professional experience and a 20+-year passion for software and infrastructure. At Booking.com he blends SRE and Java expertise to improve reliability, observability, and developer velocity, leading Java community meetups and driving Quarkus adoption. Previously he led teams running large-scale on-prem systems, migration to AWS, and CI/CD fleets, with hands-on experience across GitLab, JFrog, Bazel, Grafana and Prometheus. He has held leadership roles from Head of IT to Solutions Architect, pairing technical direction with vendor and stakeholder management. Francois’s background in networking (MikroTik certifications, BGP/OSPF) and deep ops experience mean he routinely bridges application design and production operability. He also contributes to open-source ecosystems around Quarkus, Vaadin and ApexCharts, reflecting a commitment to community-driven improvement.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MCSE, MCSE+I, MCSE, MCSE+I at Dynamix Computer Training CentreMTCNA, MTCRE, Wireless Routing, MTCNA, MTCRE, Wireless Routing at Mikrotik SAAfrikaans, English, Business Economics, Physical Science, Accounting, Mathematics, Computer Studies, Afrikaans, English, Business Economics, Physical Science, Accounting, Mathematics, Computer Studies at Charlie Hofmeyr
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (124)
dashboard10
python10
automation10
persistence10
home-assistant10
monitoring10
non-blocking10
reactive10
relational10
mqtt10
sql10
event-loop10
orm-library10
jpa10
high-performance10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TFyre/victronenergy
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 6 months
TFyre/bambu-farm
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Bambulab Web interface for multiple printers
Contributions:30 releases, 7 reviews, 102 PRs in 1 year 2 months
bambu-labbambulabquarkusvaadin
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