Jaap Blom
Software Engineer at Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
Maarsbergen, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJaap Blom is a software engineer with 11+ years of experience building web applications and R&D solutions for cultural heritage institutions, currently focused at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. He specializes in making digitized archives, libraries and museum collections accessible through prototypes, APIs and production apps, combining backend services (Java, Python, Node.js, Elasticsearch/Solr) with modern front-end work (React, Angular, web components). Jaap brings deep domain knowledge in semantic web, web archiving and video technologies—speech recognition, video annotation and automated crawling feature regularly in his projects. He is experienced in European R&D processes and delivery (Scrum, Prince2) and often bridges user research and technical design to evaluate real end-user benefits. Comfortable across DevOps, databases and search platforms, he has a pragmatic track record of turning research ideas into usable tools for both the public and professional researchers. Based in Maarsbergen, he pairs long-term institutional experience with a hacker’s toolkit that spans legacy stacks to contemporary APIs.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Software development, Bachelor of Science, Software development at Hogeschool Enschede
Hungarian, English
Github Skills (100)
puppet9
npm-version9
autocomplete9
angular8
api8
rest8
javascript8
algolia8
flask8
instantsearch8
ui-components8
react8
flask-restplus8
search-ui8
vue8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
beeldengeluid/mediasuite-website
Jul 2020 - May 2026
Frontend code repository for the CLARIAH Media Suite website.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 16 PRs in 5 years 10 months
frontend
linkedtv/editortool
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:10 commits, 4 comments, 2 issues in 1 day
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