John Bokma
Sr. Perl Programmer at DELTA Fiber
Naaldwijk, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJohn Bokma is a Senior Perl programmer with 16+ years of professional experience and an MSc in Computer Science, currently applying his expertise at DELTA Fiber from the Netherlands. He specializes in Modern Perl, DBI, XML/XSLT, massive parallel web scraping/crawling, and using Perl as the "glue" to integrate legacy and contemporary systems, while steadily refreshing C++/Qt and Python skills. As a long-time self-employed consultant and former CTO, he combines hands-on engineering with technical writing and SEO-aware data processing for projects ranging from small conversion tools to large-scale data pipelines. Known for pragmatic OO Perl module design and high-throughput data transformations, he brings deep practical knowledge of MySQL and HTML/XML processing to complex integration challenges. An early tinkerer in embedded and assembly-level development, he retains a low-level systems perspective that informs efficient, optimized solutions.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Utrecht University
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
markdown10
overleaf10
latex10
resume10
pandoc10
perl9
phantomjs9
python8
leaderboard8
headless-browser8
audit7
scriptable7
developer-tools7
auditing6
performance-analysis6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
john-bokma/resume-pandoc
Aug 2016 - Apr 2022
LaTeX resume template for Pandoc based on Jason R. Blevins' template
Contributions:49 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 5 years 9 months
pandocoverleaflatex-templateresume-templatelatex
john-bokma/tumblelog
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
A static tumblelog generator available as both a Perl and Python version
Contributions:190 commits, 1 PR, 120 pushes in 2 years 3 months
pythonpython-versiontumblelogperl
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