Kris Buist
Principal Engineer at Simplicate
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Top SchoolKris Buist is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-quality, scalable software and leading cross-cultural, partly remote teams. He combines hands-on delivery—having scaled monoliths into microservices, optimized queries on a ~3TB PostgreSQL instance, and engineered data pipelines on tables with 1B+ rows—with product-minded leadership as a former CTO and founding engineer. Kris prioritizes elegant, secure systems and developer productivity, and has a track record of rapidly shipping MVPs and improving search conversion by over 30%. Comfortable bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, he drives pragmatic, measurable improvements across architecture, performance, and UX. Based in Groningen, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset and a dislike for inefficiency (and printers) to every project.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at HanzePropedeuse Computer Science, Propedeuse Computer Science at University of GroningenHogeland College Warffum
German, Dutch, English, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (52)
monolog10
postgresql10
google-analytics10
elixir10
plausible-analytics10
charts10
statistics10
databases10
marketing10
bundle10
logger10
web-analytics10
analytics10
privacy10
php10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
krisbuist/timeular-zei-linux
Aug 2017 - Jul 2020
Linux client for the Timeular ZEI
Contributions:23 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 10 months
linuxlinux-clienttimeular
krisbuist/php-enum
May 2017 - Dec 2021
Enumeration class fot PHP
Contributions:3 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 7 months
phpenumeration
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