Mees Brinkhuis
Systems And Software Architect at Aquablu
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMees Brinkhuis is a Systems and Software Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience spanning embedded systems, full‑stack development, and DevOps, currently leading architecture at Aquablu. He began as a web developer, pivoted into embedded work during his Computer Science studies, and has blended hardware and software skills—PCB design, ECAD, 3D printing and server setup—into multidisciplinary product work. A pragmatic engineer and Professional Scrum Master, he moves fluidly between low-level firmware and cloud-backed services, shipping production systems and tooling. Robotics is a long-standing passion: national RoboCupJunior champion, world competitor, and current board member helping run the Dutch competition and co-develop an open educational robotics platform for schools. Based in Leiden, he keeps a pragmatic GitHub of useful and experimental projects, reflecting a maker mindset that favors learning-by-building.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Natuur en Techniek + Biologie, High School Natuur en Techniek + Biologie at MendelcollegeMaster's degree (unfinished / 45EC) Embedded Systems, Master's degree (unfinished / 45EC) Embedded Systems at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English
Github Skills (18)
css10
svg9
validating6
discord-bot5
gnome5
mp34
discord4
addon3
minecraft3
tui3
passwords2
firefox2
password-generator2
security1
lan1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MeesCode/mmjs
Feb 2020 - May 2022
TUI mp3 player designed for excessively large music libraries
Contributions:2 PRs, 94 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
mp3tui
debolk/facebolk-theme
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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