Pieter Van Den Ham
Software Development Engineer at Workday
Dublin, Ireland
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Pieter Van Den Ham is a software development engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications, from PHP/Symfony backends and third-party API integrations to Vue/TypeScript frontends and CI/CD pipelines. After earning an MSc in Computer Science from TU Delft, he progressed from long-term client work at Biomedia Amsterdam to platform-focused roles at Workday, where he now contributes to customer deployment tooling. He combines practical server administration experience with test-driven development and automated deployments, enabling reliable production systems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the pyTelegramBotAPI library by adding efficiency and usability features, showing attention to both performance and developer ergonomics. Relocating to Dublin, he’s focused on expanding into large-scale distributed applications while still enjoying low-friction side projects and volleyball.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Minor, Minor at University of MinnesotaBachelor's degree Informatica (Computer Science), Bachelor's degree Informatica (Computer Science) at University of AmsterdamMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (15)
telegram-bot-api10
python10
apidoc10
php9
authentication9
api9
telegram9
node-telegram-bot-api8
html6
unit-testing6
css6
doctrine-orm6
php-internals6
symfony6
telegram-bot6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
eternnoir/pyTelegramBotAPI
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Python Telegram bot api.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 20 PRs, 43 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Pieter's primary contributions revolve around enhancing the `pyTelegramBotAPI` library. They implemented features such as an offset argument for the `getUpdates` method, improving the efficiency of retrieving updates. Further work included extending the `ReplyKeyboardMarkup` class for easier complex key board creation and implemented the get_user_profile_photos feature. These changes indicate an effort to expand the library's capabilities and optimize existing functionalities.
telegram-botapipythonpython-telegrambot
pevdh/advent-of-code
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:94 commits, 135 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year
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