HJ Blom
Senior Engineer at Primer
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolHJ Blom is a Senior Engineer based in the Western Cape with 11 years of experience building backend platforms in C#, Go, and Python, currently driving platform work at Primer. He specializes in designing systems from the ground up, with a strong interest in data science, image processing, and security—experience that includes a behavioural anti-ransomware platform and production ETL and tooling for data teams. His background spans fintech and e‑commerce catalogue systems as well as embedded and tooling work, showing an ability to move between low-level OS/process tracking and high-level cloud services. Colleagues rely on him to deliver pragmatic, production-ready infrastructure and developer tooling that improve team productivity.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Stellenbosch University
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (58)
cqrs10
message-queue10
event-sourcing10
rabbitmq10
stream10
amqp9
dm9
kafka9
streaming-data9
golang9
singer9
jq9
stream-processing9
rule9
message-bus9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hjblom/fuse
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Fuse is a golang microservice generator.
Contributions:36 commits, 32 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 months
golangfusegomicroservicesmicroservice
hjblom/grule-rule-engine
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Rule engine implementation in Golang
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
golangbusiness-rulesrule-enginerule
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