Jacob Heijligers
Contract Software Engineer at Stealth AI Startup
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Heijligers is a contract software engineer with a master's from TU Delft and 11 years of hands-on experience shipping high-complexity systems end-to-end. He specializes in fast, autonomous delivery across backend, infrastructure, and mobile/web stacks—recently tackling advanced Rust challenges for RL research at a stealth AI startup. Jacob has a track record of solving adversarial and scaling problems, from a distributed, Kubernetes-backed chatbot used by millions to a Rust-powered data pipeline that modernized a real estate platform while working part-time. Comfortable both as a solo engineer and a collaborator, he prioritizes clarity, speed, and maintainable architecture to turn ambiguous problems into production systems. Outside client work he prototypes tools to explore new ideas or improve daily life, reflecting a bias toward creative, pragmatic engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
Github Skills (83)
python10
bots10
akamai10
act10
kik10
api10
tor10
gcloud9
transmission9
ton9
streaming9
transport9
gcloud-cli9
calendar-view9
network-programming9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Tribler/app-to-app-communicator
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 months
securityresilientproof-of-conceptattacksmartphones
Tribler/cloudomate
May 2017 - Jan 2019
Unpermissioned Open Computer API
Contributions:133 commits, 45 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 year 9 months
apipython
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