Jan Stienstra
Principal System Architect at SAS
Huizen, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Stienstra is a Principal System Architect at SAS Netherlands with six years of focused experience architecting cloud deployments and integrating SAS into customer environments. Grounded in a Master's in High Performance Distributed Computing, he blends HPC and distributed systems expertise with practical cloud and deployment engineering. At SAS he progressed through roles from Senior Technical Consultant to Principal, driving technical architecture and deployment strategies. He also contributes to prominent open-source projects like Home Assistant, where he improved Jellyfin media integrations, demonstrating a knack for reliable back-end engineering and privacy-focused automation. Based in Huizen, he combines academic rigor with hands-on systems work and an eye for pragmatic, test-driven improvements.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science: High Performance Distributed Computing, Master Computer Science: High Performance Distributed Computing at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)VWO Natuur & Techniek, VWO Natuur & Techniek at Oscar Romero, Hoorn
English, Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (13)
jellyfin10
home-assistant10
api10
python10
apidoc10
streaming9
asyncio9
mqtt8
testing8
mqttnet8
home-automation7
iot7
internet-of-things7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:83 reviews, 9 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the Jellyfin media source integration within Home Assistant. Their work involved implementing features like TV show support and refactoring existing media source code. They addressed issues related to mime type handling and data consistency within the Jellyfin API interactions. Additionally, the user added features and tests, including re-authentication flows and runtime data implementation, alongside code optimizations.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
RunC0deRun/home-assistant
Nov 2020 - Feb 2025
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first
Contributions:109 pushes, 36 branches in 4 years 3 months
raspberry-pihouseprivacy-firstprivacygarden
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