Rik De Boer
Senior Software Engineer at Best Time 2 Travel
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRik De Boer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 13 years of experience building full-stack web applications, mapping tools and developer-facing products. He combines modern Node/TypeScript/React stacks with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), GraphQL/Hasura and practical AI integrations, while retaining deep roots in Drupal and PHP from long-term open-source contribution. As an entrepreneur and founder of mapping and region-aware projects, he brings product intuition to technical execution—recent work includes an AI travel planner and accessible, data-driven civic hubs. Comfortable across backend, frontend and DevOps pipelines, he has a track record of shipping production systems, CI/CD and test-driven services for both government and startup clients. Rik’s recurring theme is “happy mapping”: turning geospatial insight into usable interfaces that respect privacy and accessibility. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who still contributes code to community projects beyond day-to-day delivery.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Master of Science - MSc at University of Twente
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (85)
cpp10
backend10
osrm10
openstreetmap10
offline-maps10
map-matching10
tac9
astar9
dijkstra9
traveling-salesman9
directions9
send-sms9
phonegap-plugin8
location8
cordova-android8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RikdeBoer/GDPR-video
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
RikdeBoer/Leaflet-marker-power
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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