Kaj Dreef
Senior Software Engineer at PlayStation
Ladera Ranch, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaj Dreef is a senior software engineer with 11 years of industry and research experience, currently building systems at PlayStation while pursuing a PhD in Software Engineering at UC Irvine. His work bridges dynamic analysis, program comprehension, and debugging—applying research-grade models of program execution to practical tooling and performance problems in large distributed systems. Trained in electrical engineering and embedded systems at TU Delft, he brings low-level systems intuition to cloud-scale service engineering and has repeatedly returned to PlayStation in progressively senior roles. Kaj’s background as a graduate researcher and course instructor means he combines strong mentorship and teaching skills with hands-on debugging and tool development. He is based in Ladera Ranch, California, and is known for translating academic ideas into production-ready diagnostics for complex runtime environments.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Natuur en Techniek, Natuur en Gezondheid, High School, Natuur en Techniek, Natuur en Gezondheid at Hermann Wesselink CollegeMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Embedded Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Embedded Systems at Delft University of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering at University of California, Irvine
Dutch, English
Github Skills (33)
windows-desktop10
linux10
kodi10
media-player10
tvos10
android10
xbmc10
xml10
ios9
tracer9
java9
python9
windows-uwp9
windows9
media-center9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spideruci/morpheus-backend
Jun 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:12 PRs, 112 pushes, 27 branches in 2 years 3 months
kajdreef/docker-spiderlab
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 release, 12 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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