Joost Smit
Back-end Developer at Lab Digital
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJoost Smit is a pragmatic back-end developer with nine years of experience building and maintaining server-side systems for Dutch digital products, currently contributing at Lab Digital from Rotterdam. Transitioning from a Master's in Criminology to software, he brings a research-driven mindset and strong problem-solving instincts to backend architecture, reliability, and data-driven debugging. His recent roles at Zoover/Vakanties.nl and Oneteam reflect steady responsibility for production services in high-availability web environments. Comfortable across the full back-end lifecycle, Joost combines hands-on coding with practical testing and a focus on delivering maintainable, well-tested systems. Colleagues describe him as a steadying technical force who applies analytical rigor learned in academia to everyday engineering trade-offs.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Criminology, Master's degree Criminology at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Github Skills (6)
testing8
rest7
commercetools7
api7
rest-api6
python6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jsm1t/commercetools-node-mock
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Mock for the commercetools rest api
Contributions:37 pushes, 13 branches in 8 months
JSm1t/qquesttechday
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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