Paul Bakker
Founder & Owner at Kindled Labs
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPaul Bakker is a founder and product leader with 13 years of experience building business software, SaaS platforms, and developer-friendly ecosystems from Amsterdam. He combines hands-on technical understanding—illustrated by contributions to testing infrastructure in the well-known Rhino JavaScript engine—with a proven track record of professionalizing product management and driving Agile adoption at scale. Comfortable shifting between strategy and execution, he has led platform migrations, product roadmaps, and cross-functional teams while training and advising independent software vendors. Known as the calm, persistent problem-solver, he excels at connecting stakeholders across business and engineering to turn complex challenges into robust, user-focused solutions. A public speaker and coach by training, he brings a pragmatic, people-first approach to product-led growth and organizational improvement.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Personal Development, Personal Development at ORMIT Management Development ProgramBachelor of Science (BSc), Business Management in Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Business Management in Technology at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesProduct Management, Product Management at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessProfessional Coaching - EQA accredited, Coaching, Foundation Level, Professional Coaching - EQA accredited, Coaching, Foundation Level at Coaching Academy International
English, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (15)
test-automation10
javascript10
testing10
osgi9
java9
ecmascript9
javas9
osgi-bundle6
multipart-formdata6
spring-mvc6
netflix-dgs6
spring6
spring-roo6
rest6
rad6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/rhino
Sep 2020 - May 2022
Rhino is an open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 96 reviews, 43 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the test suite of the Rhino JavaScript engine, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes for its test infrastructure. Their work included improvements to the command-line testing options, adding support for specific properties within the `NativeObject` class, and incorporating logic to properly handle template literals. They also refactored and updated the testing framework and test262.properties file. The user's contributions improved the testing capabilities and robustness of the project.
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p-bakker/rhino
Sep 2020 - Sep 2024
Rhino is the 100% free & open source, embeddable JavaScript engine implemented in pure Java
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 177 pushes in 4 years
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