Kas Buunk
Mission Critical Software Engineer at Schuberg Philis
Bussum, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKas Buunk is a mission-critical software engineer and systems thinker with eight years of experience bridging art-world expertise and backend engineering, now focused on resilient Go and Rust services. After a career as an auctioneer, paintings valuer and economist, he pivoted into software by prototyping AI-assisted artist authentication—an unusual blend of domain knowledge and technical curiosity that informs his pragmatic approach to real-world problems. He has led backend tribes, standardized internal platforms, and built train-to-shore sensor systems that make hardware data reliably available to the public. Comfortable across on-prem deployments and cloud-native stacks, Kas pairs hands-on coding with architecting dependable systems for high-availability environments. Based in Bussum, Netherlands, he’s completing a part-time CS degree while contributing professional-grade backend work and shaping cross-team practices.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Gymnasium - N&T and N&G, High School Gymnasium - N&T and N&G at Marnix College, EdeBachelor's Degree (Part-Time) Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree (Part-Time) Computer Science at Open UniversiteitMaster’s Degree Economics of Management and Organisations, Master’s Degree Economics of Management and Organisations at Erasmus School of Economics
Dutch, English
Github Skills (75)
isomorphic10
reactive9
sign-in-with-apple9
recovery9
user-management9
dom9
webassembly8
rust8
user-profile8
passkey8
webview8
identity8
idp8
okta8
templating8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kasbuunk/transmit
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
Transmission scheduler of delayed and periodic messages.
Contributions:15 PRs, 112 pushes, 18 branches in 11 months
kasbuunk/microservice
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:109 commits, 77 PRs, 104 pushes in 3 months
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