Reinier Balt
Product Manager A.i. AORTA LSP Platform
Voorburg, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolReinier Balt is an experienced IT strategist and product manager with a career spanning professional roles since 1996 and deep expertise in software governance, demand management, and IT/software architecture. He currently leads the AORTA/LSP platform transition to Agile/SAFe at VZVZ and has driven multiple national healthcare interoperability projects, including FHIR adoption and MedMij integration. As an independent senior consultant and owner of Balt Advies, he combines hands-on technical skills—Rust, embedded systems, and open standards—with governance and sourcing know-how to help organisations operationalise complex information chains. His open-source contributions to projects like librespot and rust-pcap show a pragmatic developer mindset focused on robustness and cross-platform compatibility. Reinier’s background in geo-spatial infrastructures, secure patient consent systems, and large-scale information exchange gives him a rare blend of domain depth and practical delivery experience. He often bridges the gap between vendor management, security/compliance and executable architecture, preparing organisations for sustainable, auditable change.
18 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Het Kompasdrs, computer science, drs, computer science at Leiden UniversityVWO, VWO at Chr. Lyceum Dr. W.A. Visser 't Hooft
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (21)
pcap10
networking10
epp10
e-ink10
embedded10
popt10
rust10
spotify10
pot10
spi9
connect9
error-handling9
data-structures8
concurrency8
data-structure8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
librespot-org/librespot
Apr 2018 - Jun 2021
Open Source Spotify client library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 PRs, 20 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Reinier primarily focused on improving the stability and robustness of the `librespot` project. Their contributions included preventing panics on connection reset and implementing a shutdown mechanism to handle Ctrl-C events gracefully. They also addressed deprecation warnings and refactored the code to improve session management. Their work involved making core components like convert and decoder public, and resolving a bug regarding session invalidation.
spotifylibrespotrustspotify-connect
rust-embedded-community/epd-waveshare
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Drivers for various EPDs from Waveshare and others
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 16 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Reinier primarily contributed to the development of drivers for various E-Ink displays from Waveshare, specifically focusing on the 2.13" and 2.9" models. Their work involved implementing the necessary code to interact with the displays, including initialization, updating the display content, and managing power-saving features. The commits demonstrate expertise in integrating these displays with embedded systems, utilizing embedded-graphics for display operations. Further contribution include using the display in its chromatic and b/w modes.
drivereinkepaperwavesharerust-library
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