Paul Brussee
Software Engineer at QuTech
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Brussee is a software engineer and architect based in Delft with 11 years of experience building distributed systems for aerospace, safety, and security domains. He focuses on cognitive cooperative autonomous agents and UAV-related decision support and command & control systems, blending research-grade thinking with production engineering. At QuTech and prior roles he has delivered resilient backend systems and tackled national-security critical disaster response platforms earlier in his career. An active open-source contributor, he expanded python-for-android with many library recipes and strengthened Tribler’s Android integration and REST APIs, showing a knack for bridging desktop/server tooling to mobile environments. Trained at TU Delft in Information Architecture and Distributed Systems, he pairs deep systems knowledge with practical delivery and an eye for testing and error handling. Unexpectedly for a systems engineer, he also spent years working professionally as a wedding photographer, reflecting strong attention to detail and adaptability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science: Information Architecture and Distributed Systems, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science: Information Architecture and Distributed Systems at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, java, python, html/css/scss/sass/json/xml, haskell, javascript, c++, sql, typescript
Github Skills (21)
python10
packaging10
kivy10
apk10
android10
rest-api10
bittorrent10
testing9
git9
better-sqlite39
torrent9
sqlite9
openssl9
boost9
libsodium9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kivy/python-for-android
Jan 2016 - Nov 2016
Turn your Python application into an Android APK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:85 commits, 51 PRs, 83 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the python-for-android project by adding support for various libraries and dependencies. They introduced recipes for libraries like libsodium, boost, leveldb, libtorrent, and others, enabling these libraries to be packaged for Android applications. Furthermore, the user updated existing recipes such as openssl and sqlite3, and made minor refactorings and adjustments to the build process. These contributions expanded the functionality and ecosystem of the python-for-android tool.
pythonandroid-apkandroid-frameworkpackagingapk
Tribler/tribler
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:93 commits, 55 PRs, 330 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul focused on enhancing the Tribler BitTorrent client's core functionality. Their work included refactoring Android-related code, defining Android-specific file paths, and integrating the video analyser. They also implemented a new REST API endpoint for creating channels, including setting a default "closed" mode, and added functionality for adding torrents to a channel. Additionally, they addressed error handling within the REST API and added test coverage for the new features.
pythoncontent-discoverytransmissionprivacyp2p
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