Klaas-jan Boon
Senior Software Engineer at PagerDuty
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolKlaas-jan Boon is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently at PagerDuty and previously driving video ad tech and analytics at Blue Billywig. He builds full-stack, production-grade systems—from large-scale ClickHouse analytics pipelines and AWS-centric backends to front-end ad integrations like Prebid.js—focused on performance, developer experience, and maintainability. His open-source contributions include enhancing the widely used Prebid.js Blue Billywig adapter and hardening nexrender’s S3 integration, showing a practical blend of front-end video ad expertise and resilient back-end engineering. Based in Porto and largely self-taught in software engineering, he has a track record of modernizing legacy stacks and automating workflows to accelerate delivery.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer, Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer at Autodidact
Github Skills (15)
aws-s310
video-ads10
javascript10
adaptor10
amazon-s310
header-bidding10
adapter10
s3-bucket10
testing9
aws9
chai9
api8
automations7
automation7
adobe4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
prebid/Prebid.js
May 2020 - Jun 2021
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 26 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Klaas-jan primarily contributed to the Blue Billywig bid adapter within the Prebid.js repository. Their work focused on implementing and refining the adapter, including adding features, addressing review feedback, and updating test parameters. A significant portion of their efforts involved modifications to the adapter's integration with the Blue Billywig video player, including renderer configuration and advertiser domain support. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on video ad integration and adapter performance.
headerprebidjavascriptconfusingbidding
inlife/nexrender
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
📹 Data-driven render automation for After Effects
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Klaas-jan's contributions focused on improving the functionality and stability of the `nexrender` project. They addressed issues related to WSL detection, whitespace inconsistencies, and incorrect file name generation. A significant portion of their work involved enhancing S3 integration by implementing alternative credential passing methods and fixing related bugs. These changes improved the robustness and configuration options for interacting with S3 storage.
renderapireactadobeafter-effects
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