Geert‑johan Riemer is an experienced software engineer and founder with 11+ years building cloud-native, highly available systems and developer tools from the Netherlands. As Owner and Technical Director at Printeers and past founder of Stack11, he blends hands‑on Go back-end work, Kubernetes orchestration, and Flutter/Dart desktop and mobile development to ship reliable products. He’s an active open-source contributor (notably improving go-gorp and go.rice and adding desktop Flutter tooling) and brings deep Linux, DevOps and embedded-hardware experience ranging from ARM/AVR GPIO to modular synthesizers. Comfortable leading projects and refactoring complex systems, he’s motivated by open data, cryptocurrencies, and using technology to improve society.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Technische Informatica, Technische Informatica at Inholland University of Applied Sciences
Master of a Bunch of Things related to Technology, Computer Software Engineering, Master of a Bunch of Things related to Technology, Computer Software Engineering at Autodidact
go.rice is a Go package that makes working with resources such as html,js,css,images,templates, etc very easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:46 commits, 49 PRs, 64 pushes in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Geert-johan primarily focused on improving the `go.rice` package, which facilitates working with resources in Go projects. Their contributions involved fixing bugs, such as resolving issues related to `syscall` and clean-up processes. They also implemented enhancements including non-embedded path usage, and code refactoring, specifically optimizing template handling, and file embedding functionality. These changes demonstrate an understanding of Go's build process and resource management.
Hover helps developers to release Flutter applications on desktop.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:20 reviews, 135 commits, 81 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Geert-johan primarily contributed to the `go-flutter-desktop/hover` project, a tool for releasing Flutter applications on the desktop. Their work involved refactoring code, replacing instances of "glutter" with "hover," and adding features for building and running desktop applications. The user implemented functionality to include the engine in the output directory, enabling support for Darwin (macOS) and Windows, and introduced a run subcommand for hot-reload capabilities. The user also addressed issues related to the executable path and engine downloads.
windowsflutter-webhoverdesktopgo-flutter
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Geert-johan Riemer - Owner, Technical Director at Printeers