Richard De Zwart
Tech Lead at UWV
Drenthe, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRichard De Zwart is a Tech Lead and .NET/Azure specialist with over two decades of software engineering experience and a focused 11-year track record in senior and leadership roles. He prefers letting tests drive design and development, is a TDD advocate, and brings hands-on expertise in C#, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, Azure services, and DevOps practices. Richard has repeatedly blended individual contributor work with mentoring and coaching, helping junior engineers become more professional and effective. His career spans building proofs-of-concept under tight deadlines, architecting systems, and leading teams at organizations from government agencies to retail and consultancy. Based in Drenthe, Netherlands, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with a pragmatic, test-first approach rather than heavyweight documentation. An uncommon detail: he started with a formal background in biology before moving into long-term software architecture and leadership.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Drs. Biology General, Drs. Biology General at Leiden UniversityITIP
English, German, French, dutch sign language
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (71)
transaction10
command-line-interface10
asp-net-core10
azure-cli10
asp-net10
arm10
mobility10
dotnet10
exchange10
powershell10
azure10
roaming10
assertion10
csharp10
authorisation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mountain65/ocpi
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:10 pushes in 6 months
exchangedetailauthorisationroaminginformation-exchange
mountain65/docs
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Dapr user documentation, used to build docs.dapr.io
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
dapruser-documentation
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