Piet Geursen
Senior Software Engineering at OpenStar Technologies
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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RockstarPiet Geursen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand, with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and distributed systems. He blends front-end React/Next.js work with GraphQL backends and PostgreSQL, having delivered features around invoicing, tax forms and expense workflows at Open Collective. Piet has hands-on experience in decentralized apps and protocols, contributing to the Secure Scuttlebutt-powered Patchwork client, and has shipped backend integrations and migrations that improve data integrity and automation. He also brings systems-level and embedded firmware experience from earlier electronics engineering roles and has taught and mentored over 100 aspiring developers. Comfortable switching between startup and product teams, Piet pairs pragmatic implementation skills with a collaborative, empathetic teaching style that surfaces in his open-source and freelance Rust work.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (24)
database-migrations10
sequel10
javascript10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
nextjs10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
nodejs10
database-migration10
react10
sequelizejs10
testing9
finance-management9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ssbc/patchwork
Apr 2017 - Feb 2019
A decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Piet contributed to the application by implementing new features and addressing bugs. Their work included adding features such as "patchwork-gatherings" and "patch-gatherings," integrating related modules. They also addressed an error, and updated the latest-update.js file to improve application stability and ensure proper error handling related to network requests.
securescuttlebuttssbsharing-appp2p
opencollective/opencollective-api
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Open Collective's API. A GraphQL API powered by Sequelize and PostgreSQL.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 commits, 10 PRs, 56 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Piet primarily contributed to the back-end of the Open Collective API, specifically focusing on implementing features related to legal documents, invoices, and user expense reporting. Their work involved modifying GraphQL queries and types, creating database migrations, and integrating with the HelloWorks API for tax form management. They also added unit tests to validate the implemented logic and data handling.
apigraphql-apisequelizeapi-snodejs
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