László Van Den Hoek
Senior Consultant at ilionx
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLászló Van Den Hoek is a senior consultant with 13 years of experience architecting and implementing data-intensive, JVM-based cloud applications and distributed systems. He has a strong background in streaming and reactive systems—contributing performance and API consistency improvements to the widely used Akka project—and applies that expertise to data integration, consent-based exchange, and Kafka evaluations. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs hands-on coding (Scala, Java, Python) and DevOps with requirements analysis and pragmatic architecture for clients in energy, government, and enterprise. He combines an academic foundation in bioinformatics with a long-running interest in NLP and modern LLM tooling to accelerate developer productivity. Based in the Randstad and open to remote work, he prefers to consult through his employer and focuses on delivering scalable, robust solutions rather than relocation.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnasium FelisenumMSc, Bio-Informatics, MSc, Bio-Informatics at University of Amsterdam
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Github Skills (17)
reactive10
akka10
intellij-idea10
java10
ubuntu10
scala10
javas10
actor-model10
concurrency10
streaming10
distributed-systems9
high-performance9
scala-collections6
generics6
declaration6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
akka/akka
Jun 2017 - May 2020
A platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. SDK, libraries, and hosted environments.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:László primarily focused on improving the Akka Streams library. They implemented consistency improvements between `UniformFanInShape` and `UniformFanOutShape`, and optimized existing code, including the use of `Array` copies and JavaDoc additions. Their contributions also include fixes for documentation typos, and minor adjustments related to the Javadsl API. The user also addressed various performance optimizations and bug fixes across multiple Akka modules.
resilientactor-modelreactiveconcurrentdistributed-actors
laszlovandenhoek/twitter-scraps-manager
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:133 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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