Summary
Oscar Bakker is a versatile software developer based in Amsterdam with a decade of experience building front- and back-end web applications for public and private organizations. Currently at Gemeente Amsterdam, he blends frontend craftsmanship (React, Angular, Svelte, TypeScript) with backend skills in Node.js, PHP/Laravel and Python frameworks, plus database and DevOps tooling like MySQL, Docker and AWS. He has a track record as a freelance contractor and entrepreneur who shapes project scope and improves development workflows, notably delivering a game platform and internal tools across diverse teams. Comfortable across the stack, he often pairs modern JS architectures (Redux, GraphQL, Saga) with pragmatic server-side solutions, and brings data/scientific tooling experience through Python, Jupyter, NumPy and Pandas. Colleagues value his ability to move between rapid prototyping and production-hardening while keeping developer experience in mind.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Johan de Witt-Gymnasium
Informatica, Informatica at Open Universiteit
Universiteit van Amsterdam