Jordie B
Software Engineer at TomTom-Tools
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJordie B is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native systems using the JVM, Kotlin, Spring, GraphQL and observability tooling. Based in the Greater Enschede Area, he has shipped production services and CI/CD/cloud migrations (Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure) for industrial monitoring and enterprise workloads while contributing to notable open-source GraphQL projects like graphql-java and Netflix’s DGS framework. His contributions focus on hard-to-get right backend concerns—spec compliance, subscription/error propagation, and framework ergonomics—reflecting a deep understanding of both spec-level detail and developer experience. Equally comfortable in polyglot stacks (Java, Kotlin, C#, Python, TypeScript), he blends hands-on implementation with platform thinking, having bridged desktop-to-web systems and designed microservice architectures with OpenTelemetry. Currently advancing his expertise through an MSc in Computer Science, he brings a practical, research-minded approach to building reliable, observable distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Software Engineering (HBO-ICT), Bachelor Software Engineering (HBO-ICT) at WindesheimMiddelbare School Hoger algemeen voortgezet onderwijs (Havo), Middelbare School Hoger algemeen voortgezet onderwijs (Havo) at Dr. Nassau CollegeHonours Programme Technology and Society; De Nieuwe Mens (The New Human), Honours Programme Technology and Society; De Nieuwe Mens (The New Human) at Global Project and Change Management (GPCM) | Windesheim Honours CollegeMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of TwenteExchange (Erasmus) Business Information Technology, Exchange (Erasmus) Business Information Technology at Haaga-Helia University of Applied SciencesInformatica (Computer Science), Informatica (Computer Science) at Utrecht University
Dutch, English, German, German
Github Skills (12)
graphql10
javas10
web-framework10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
groovy10
java10
spring-boot10
testing10
kotlin9
schema-design9
antlr8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/dgs-framework
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
GraphQL for Java with Spring Boot made easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 12 commits, 8 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jordie primarily contributed to the DGS (GraphQL for Java) framework, focusing on internal implementation details and enhancements. Their work includes adding a framework-specific `DgsNoOpPreparsedDocumentProvider` and addressing wildcard imports. They also worked on recognizing Mono<T> return types for `@DgsEntityFetcher` annotated methods, and improving the automatic DgsDataLoader naming functionality. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on core framework functionality and improving developer experience.
spring-bootdgsgraphql-javaspringgraphql
graphql-java/graphql-java
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
GraphQL Java implementation
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 11 commits, 15 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jordie primarily contributed to improving the GraphQL Java implementation, focusing on bug fixes and compliance with the GraphQL specifications. They addressed issues related to subscriptions, error propagation in subscription events, and the handling of locale display names in tests. Furthermore, the user modified parser and schema printer to improve their behaviour. The user's work demonstrates a deep understanding of the GraphQL specification and the internal workings of the Java implementation.
javagraphql-javagraphql
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.