Henré Botha
Software Engineer II at Booking.com
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolHenré Botha is a pragmatic Software Engineer II with 11 years' experience building full-stack and backend systems, currently expanding Booking.com's Attractions offerings from Haarlem. He ships services predominantly in TypeScript, Java and Perl, deploys via Kubernetes, and operates on-call for critical production incidents. His background spans microservice platforms, mobile SDKs, and web APIs from roles at Entersekt, Travelstart and others, and he has strengthened test suites on notable open-source projects like the colorls Ruby gem. A former sound-engineering student who cares about peripherals and fighting games, he brings a hands-on, quality-focused mindset and prefers stable, non-crypto, on-site or hybrid roles in Europe.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma, Sound Engineering & Music Production, Advanced Diploma, Sound Engineering & Music Production at CityVarsity School of Film and Creative Arts
Afrikaans, English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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23answers
23questions
Github Skills (13)
testing10
rspec10
gemspec10
gemfile10
rubygems10
ruby10
cli9
timedelta6
tuples6
python6
rspec-rails6
sum6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
athityakumar/colorls
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons. :tada:
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 20 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Henré primarily focused on enhancing the testing suite for the `colorls` gem. Their work involved writing and modifying RSpec tests to cover various functionalities, including flag options, hidden file handling, sorting, and output formatting. They added new test cases, consolidated existing ones, and refactored tests to reduce redundancy, ensuring comprehensive testing of the gem's behavior. These contributions improved the reliability and maintainability of the project.
ruby-gemfontrubyeye-candyls
henrebotha/vimrc
Apr 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:79 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
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