Herald Van Der Breggen
Senior Ontwikkelaar at Elanza
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolHerald Van Der Breggen is a seasoned senior developer with over 13 years of professional experience, currently shaping backend systems at Elanza from his base in Amsterdam. He spent a decade at Booking.com where he led migrations to more scalable architectures, built core extranet and intranet foundations, and operated dozens of MySQL instances before dedicated DBAs were hired. Expert in Linux, MySQL, Perl and software architecture, he focuses on pragmatic, scalable solutions for high-traffic web platforms. His career began in hands-on development and training roles at Cap Gemini, giving him strong delivery and mentorship chops across diverse projects. Trained as a civil engineer at Delft University of Technology, he brings a structural mindset to system design and performance tuning. Quietly pragmatic, he’s the kind of engineer who moves seamlessly between coding, architecture and operational responsibilities to keep services running smoothly as they grow.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Corderius College, AmersfoortCivil Engineer, Civil Engineer at Delft University of Technology
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Github Skills (65)
tree9
python8
deep-learning8
gpu8
machine-learning8
amazon8
security7
command-line-interface7
ids7
daemon7
amazon-web-services7
power-management7
aws7
neural-network6
anti-bot6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
heraldb/pysudoku
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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