Koen Bollen
Owner at Second Stage Studio
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKoen Bollen is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 16 years of experience building scalable backend systems, games, and developer-facing products. He co-founded game studio Ludomotion, taught game programming at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, and most recently helped Blendle build a newsletter mailer capable of generating and sending 500k unique emails in under 20 minutes on GKE. Comfortable across Go, Ruby, Python, JavaScript and C#, he moves between fast prototyping and production-grade infrastructure with equal ease. Based in Utrecht, he now runs Second Stage Studio after a multi-year developer role at Poki, blending entrepreneurial drive with hands-on engineering. Known for picking up new languages quickly, he combines deep systems thinking with a background in game technology that informs creative, performance-conscious solutions.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Game Technology, Bachelor of Science Game Technology at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesMediacollege Amsterdam
Github Skills (168)
uuid-generator10
reverse-proxy10
docker-logs10
marathon10
proxy10
zookeeper10
structured-logging10
consul10
lua10
nanoid10
json-logs10
cloud-native10
entity-component10
mesos10
glusterfs10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
poki/netlib
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
The Poki Networking Library for online multiplayer web games!
Contributions:99 reviews, 57 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year 4 months
gamegamesonline-multiplayernetworkingpoki
koenbollen/misdirection
Apr 2015 - Jul 2020
URL Shortener with options like reverse-proxy
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
shortenerproxyreverse-proxyoptionstinyurl
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