Pierre Havelaar
Partner at Outseta
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre Havelaar is an experienced software engineer and partner with over two decades of cross-industry experience, currently leading engineering initiatives in the Atlassian ecosystem and SaaS product space. He combines deep hands-on skills across front-end and back-end stacks (React, Node.js, Java, AWS) with a proven ability to digest complex business rules into clean, reliable code—evidenced by zero-downtime billing migrations and automated cloud deployments. Comfortable moving between product, infrastructure and hardware, his background spans game engine performance optimization, biotech mechatronics, and running his own web hosting business, which gives him an uncommon blend of efficiency-driven engineering and business focus. A fast learner and practical mentor, he excels at translating hard technical constraints into elegant, high-value solutions and enabling non-engineering teams to operate independently through tooling and automation. Based in the UK, he brings entrepreneurial rigor and a history of pushing platforms to their limits to deliver scalable, production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
VWO diploma, VWO diploma at Titus Brandsma CollegeMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology
English, Dutch
Github Skills (97)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pierreh/pierreh.github.io
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
pierreh/pierreh
Apr 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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