Matthias Hogerheijde
Senior Backend Developer at Hiber
North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthias Hogerheijde is a Senior Backend Developer based in North Holland with 12 years of experience building reliable server-side systems using Scala, Java, and Python. He has led teams and delivered backend services at companies like EBPI/Visma Connect and Hiber, with strong expertise in APIs, multithreaded processing, SQL, and data interchange formats including XBRL and JSON. Comfortable across the full stack, he also contributes front-end improvements—evidenced by UI work on the yakyak desktop chat client where he enhanced emoji rendering and refined interface elements. His background includes hands-on operational skills on Linux, TDD and CI-driven development, and early web and CMS work that shaped his pragmatic, service-oriented approach. Notably, he blends deep protocol/data-format knowledge with UI sensibility, making him effective at closing gaps between backend systems and client-facing experiences.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
No Degree, Elektrotechniek, No Degree, Elektrotechniek at Delft University of Technology
English, German, French, Dutch
Github Skills (10)
css10
uid10
chat10
javascript10
front-end-development10
coffeescript10
ui-design10
lessc9
html9
cross-platform8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
yakyak/yakyak
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Desktop chat client for Google Hangouts
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 30 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Matthias focused on enhancing the user interface of the Google Hangouts desktop chat client. Their primary contributions included implementing an emoticon selector and integrating the NotoColorEmoji font for improved emoji rendering within the chat interface. Further improvements involved refactoring UI elements, such as button spacing and the emoji selector, and improving UI display.
inboxelectronchat-clientgooglechat
HiberGlobal/api
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Protobuf files that specify the Hiber GRPC API
Contributions:43 releases, 21 commits, 45 pushes in 1 year 9 months
protocol-buffersapiprotobufgrpchiber
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