Jan Van Bruggen
Lead Engineer at Housing Connector
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Van Bruggen is a Lead Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems across startups and enterprises, currently focused on architecting data-secure solutions to help Housing Connector end homelessness nationwide. He brings deep Google Cloud expertise from roles at Google and Verily, where he helped modernize cloud resource actuation and supported large-scale developer onboarding. Jan blends hands-on software architecture, product-minded system design, and developer relations to make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions and invest in long-lived platform “roads.” An active open-source contributor, he has improved the Roc programming language’s builtins and compiler tests, reflecting a knack for improving developer tooling and code quality. Rooted in rigorous technical training from Caltech and UCLA and a cross-coastal upbringing, he pairs analytical discipline with empathy and transparency in team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
text-manipulation10
functional-programming10
rust10
strings10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
unit-testing8
documentation8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
roc-lang/roc
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
A fast, friendly, functional language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 reviews, 175 commits, 48 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jan's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the Roc programming language, specifically regarding its built-in functions and compilation process. They implemented features like `Str.replaceFirst`, `Str.replaceLast`, and `Str.replaceEach`, and also added new methods to existing builtins. The user addressed code quality by fixing typos in documentation, improving build scripts, and correcting argument orders. Additionally, they worked on creating and integrating several test examples that highlight the use and functionality of new features.
functional-languagefunctional-programmingrustroccompiler
JanCVanB/vue-guide-examples
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:56 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 21 days
vuevue-jsself-containedvuejs
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