Summary
Heiko Van Der Heijden Bruggers is an experienced software educator and developer with 11 years of practice blending hands-on engineering and pedagogy, currently teaching software development and forensic ICT at Hogeschool Leiden. He designs blended and flipped classroom experiences, produces effective video lectures, and plays an active role in assessment quality as member and chair of program and testing committees. Technically versatile, he has built software with Scala/Play, Kafka, GraphQL, MongoDB, Redis, Docker and has C++ HPC experience from developing load-balancing algorithms for the ALICE experiment at CERN. Heiko pairs a cum laude BSc in Computer Science with ongoing MSc studies in Educational Sciences, combining evidence-based teaching methods with real-world systems engineering. A Linux and LEGO enthusiast, he brings a practical, experiment-driven mindset to both classroom innovation and complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
pre-master onderwijswetenschappen, EDUCATION, pre-master onderwijswetenschappen, EDUCATION at Open University of the Netherlands
havo, cultuur & maatschappij, havo, cultuur & maatschappij at deltion sprint lyceum
Master of Science - MS, Educational sciences, Master of Science - MS, Educational sciences at Open Universiteit
Bachelor of Science - Bsc (cum laude), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - Bsc (cum laude), Computer Science at NHL Hogeschool
MBO, Game Development, MBO, Game Development at Friesland College
English, Dutch