Rik Heijdens
Member Of Technical Staff at Runway
Greater Enschede Area Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRik Heijdens is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and driving technical growth across startups and scale-ups. He progressed through engineering and staff roles at JW Player before taking on senior and staff engineering positions at Lithic, and now contributes as a Member of Technical Staff at Runway. Comfortable at the intersection of product and infrastructure, he has a proven track record of shipping reliable services and mentoring engineering teams. Based in the Greater Enschede Area, he brings a pragmatic, hands-on approach shaped by both consultancy-style early work and multi-year product engineering. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who steadily elevates platform resilience and developer velocity rather than chasing flashy rewrites. He holds a BS in Informatica from Saxion University, reflecting a solid applied-computer-science foundation.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Informatica, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatica at Saxion University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (75)
python10
perl10
ruby10
etl10
automation10
media-player10
mlops10
deep-learning10
exoplayer10
orchestration10
apache-airflow10
avro10
data-engineering10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
RikHeijdens/ExoPlayer
Oct 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:29 pushes, 8 branches, 3 comments in 11 months
androidkotlinmedia-playerextensibleplayer
RikHeijdens/airflow
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Contributions:21 pushes, 9 branches in 6 months
airflowapache-airflow
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