Hidde Bultsma
Software Engineer at Bloomon B.V.
Kingdom of the Netherlands
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RockstarHidde Bultsma is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining backend systems, based in the Netherlands. He contributes to open-source, notably improving the tortilla library by fixing legacy Python compatibility, enabling chained __call__ parts, and adding Redis-backed caching abstractions. Practical and detail-oriented, he balances bug fixes with feature work and release management, demonstrating an eye for maintainability across evolving codebases. Comfortable operating in backend-focused roles, he brings a steady track record of incremental improvements that keep libraries reliable for downstream users.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (11)
caching10
api10
apidoc10
python10
software-packaging9
git8
redis7
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
rest-api7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tortilla/tortilla
Nov 2014 - Feb 2019
Wrapping web APIs made easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 69 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Hidde primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the tortilla library. Their work involved fixing bugs related to Python 2.6 compatibility and enhancing functionality by allowing multiple parts in the `__call__` method to be chained. They also merged in updates from the develop and master branches and released a new version of the library. Moreover, the user abstracted cache functionality with Redis support.
apiapi-wrapperwrappingweb-apisscraper
redodo/saltaway
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 11 pushes in 4 days
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