Maarten Niederer is a data-focused software leader with over a decade of experience at the intersection of asset management and backend engineering, currently leading Data Management chapters at Ortec Finance. He combines deep expertise in financial instrument modelling and production-quality code with hands-on performance tuning for high data loads, often trading functional purity for tangible gains in speed and storage. His background spans consultancy, requirements engineering, SQL/PLSQL development and client-facing support across pension funds and asset managers, and he mentors teams on data transformations, ML, and storage standards. An active contributor to open-source PHP tooling, he has improved developer experience in event sourcing libraries by adding strong typing and snapshotting support—evidence of his inclination to modernize legacy systems pragmatically. Trained in computer science and mathematics with honours from Utrecht, he brings both analytical rigor and practical judgment to complex, production-critical problems.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Informatics, with honours, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Informatics, with honours at Utrecht University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, with honours, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, with honours at Universiteit Utrecht
A pragmatic event sourcing library for PHP with a focus on developer experience.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Maarten focused on adding type hints and generics to the `eventsaucephp/eventsauce` repository, improving code clarity and maintainability. They modified several core files, including `AggregateRootTestCase`, `ConstructingAggregateRootRepository`, and files related to snapshotting. Furthermore, they refactored the code to include the AggregateRootRepository with snapshotting features.
An online implementation of the cards against humanity game
Contributions:63 commits, 11 PRs, 49 pushes in 6 months
reactcards-against-humanitygamejavascriptnodejs
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