Jens De Ruiter
Backend Developer at Foundation "Cyberbrein.nl"
Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJens De Ruiter is a Backend Developer from the Netherlands with eight years of hands-on experience building web applications, infrastructure, and interactive tools for content creators. A self-taught programmer since age 12, he progressed from Minecraft plugins to professional roles in infrastructure and Django-based backends at companies like CubeCraft, Eddie, and Speaksee. He combines rapid prototyping skills with production readiness—able to turn ideas into working prototypes quickly and then harden them for deployment. As a freelancer and workshop instructor he builds livestream widgets, chat-driven apps and runs Arduino/programming workshops for youth, reflecting a strong focus on community and teaching. Comfortable across server-side development, container orchestration and hosting, Jens brings a practical, help-first mindset and a knack for translating playful projects into reliable systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnasium, Gymnasium at Coornhert GymnasiumHavo Economie en Maatschappij, Havo Economie en Maatschappij at Het Passer College
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Github Skills (69)
minecraft10
fabric10
spigot10
velocity10
api9
translator9
minestom9
bukkit9
server9
packet9
package9
media9
django8
rest8
nms8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jensjeflensje/marktplaats-scraper-tool
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
jensjeflensje/minecraft_subway
May 2022 - May 2022
This plugin adds subways/trams to Minecraft
Contributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 8 days
subwaysminecraftbukkitpluginspigot
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