Niels Drost
Data Engineer
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNiels Drost is a Data Engineer with 10 years' experience building data platforms, optimization models and full-stack systems across startups and large enterprises in the Netherlands. He combines hands-on engineering—Python ETL engines, Kafka/Timescale streaming stacks and React visualizations—with architecture and technical leadership, having designed data services and led teams at ING and Booking.com. At WaarneemApp he solved an NP-complete scheduling problem to cover over 80% of Dutch GPs, showcasing a knack for hard optimization in production. An active open-source contributor, he modernized frontend and build tooling for the popular InvoicePlane project and helps legacy Laravel repos migrate to current versions. Trained in biomedical engineering and business information systems (MSc, TU/e), he brings cross-disciplinary rigor to data, product and operational concerns.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Business information systems, Master of Science (MSc), Business information systems at Eindhoven University of TechnologyGymnasium, Natuur & Techniek, Natuur & Gezondheid, Gymnasium, Natuur & Techniek, Natuur & Gezondheid at Stedelijk Gymnasium Nijmegen
English, Dutch
Github Skills (13)
sass10
php10
javascript10
gruntjs9
codeigniter9
bootstrap9
billing9
g9
invoice9
bootstra9
css9
html7
autoprefixer6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
InvoicePlane/InvoicePlane
Aug 2018 - Dec 2022
A self-hosted open source application for managing your invoices, clients and payments.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 57 reviews, 83 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Niels primarily contributed to the frontend and build processes of the InvoicePlane project. They fixed Bootstrap version and PHP 7.3 compatibility issues, addressed clipboard-related problems by updating Javascript, and implemented responsive views for invoices and quotes. Furthermore, the user improved the Gruntfile.js to correctly build Sass in production and made updates to composer and javascript packages.
paymentscodeigniterinvoiceplaneinvoicesphp
ndforks/invoiceneko
Apr 2019 - Dec 2024
An Open Sourced Invoice System developed for anyone who needs to generate out an invoice and manage clients
Contributions:1 push in 5 years 8 months
clientsnodejsinvoiceinvoice-system
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