Raphael Kaplan
Directing Software Engineer at Trajector
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Kaplan is a directing software engineer based in Amsterdam with 15 years of experience building cloud platforms, APIs, and developer tooling across startups and major tech firms. He helped launch Google App Engine and authored key Python runtime APIs there, bringing deep practical expertise in cloud architecture, Python and Java to operations and platform teams. Currently leading engineering at The Milton Hirsch Institute while serving as Staff Engineer at Trajector, he combines hands-on coding with systems-level design and operational ownership. His background spans long-tenured roles at Delphix maintaining development environments to early web and nonprofit engineering, reflecting a pragmatic approach to reliable, scalable systems. A Manchester-trained computer systems specialist and self-described “New/Old Amsterdamer,” he blends product-focused leadership with a developer’s curiosity for infrastructure and APIs.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Systems Science, Bsc, Computer Systems Science at The University of Manchesterba, Computer Science, ba, Computer Science at SUNY New Paltz
Github Skills (35)
botocore9
pocketbase9
sdk8
aws8
aws-sdk8
fadecandy7
peewee7
terraform7
aiohttp7
database6
google-app-engine6
python6
terraform-provider6
async6
sounds5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
slobberchops/conhead
May 2022 - Jun 2023
Python-based tool for managing source file headers.
Contributions:1 review, 16 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year
utilitiesheaderspyinstallerpython
google/protorpc
Aug 2010 - Oct 2015
Contributions:65 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 2 months
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