Jan Stoots
Tech Lead at NN Group
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Stoots is a Tech Lead based in Nijmegen with 8 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping backend systems, primarily in TypeScript. He brings a strong practical background across JavaScript, PHP, and Go, with earlier exposure to C#, C/C++, and x86 assembly from hobby and side projects. A self-described reverse-engineering enthusiast, Jan has contributed to game-bot core logic on notable repos like kolbot, demonstrating his knack for optimized algorithmic solutions and tooling. At NN Group he progressed from Senior Full Stack Engineer to Tech Lead, combining technical depth with team leadership in enterprise settings. He prefers backend challenges and explicitly avoids crypto-related work, which shapes his project choices and domain focus. Colleagues appreciate his pragmatic problem-solving and curiosity-driven approach that often uncovers non-obvious efficiencies.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Sint Joris
Github Skills (12)
configuration-management10
bots10
javascript10
game-development10
performance-optimization10
game-dev10
file-management9
compiler9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
blizzhackers/kolbot
Jan 2020 - Apr 2022
d2bs: core + d2bot (noah) + kolbot libs (kolton) | January 2020's clone of https://github.com/kolton/d2bot-with-kolbot/ + further development
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 79 commits, 79 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the core logic and functionality of the game bot "kolbot," demonstrating a focus on improving efficiency and adding features. Contributions included adding utility functions, optimizing item handling, and implementing new game features like cubing Rev pots and equipping items. The user also added configuration options such as silencing bot chat, and added the ability to load in other custom attack files.
kolbotd2bsd2botlibsnoah
jaenster/fake-socket
Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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