Rob Wijkstra
Software Engineer at DataBalk
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRob Wijkstra is a pragmatic software engineer with 11+ years focused on building robust backend systems, and over a decade designing CRM platforms that integrate telephony, chat, email, ERP sync and workflow modules. He specializes in C#/.NET ecosystems (ASP.NET, Blazor, SQL Server) and reliable messaging/search stacks (RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch), and routinely leverages AI tools like Copilot and Claude to automate repetitive work and accelerate exploration of new tech. As a lead developer he has driven CTI and real-time communication projects for call center and customer contact solutions, balancing conceptual integrity with practical delivery. Outside enterprise work he builds hobby projects that prove technical chops—recreating SimCity as both WinForms and SignalR web apps and developing a Godot/.NET game with deterministic lockstep multiplayer. Based in Groningen, he combines steady hands-on engineering with collaborative problem‑solving and a dash of humor, and still records music in his home studio when not shipping features.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at Alfa CollegeBachelor, Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor, Information and Communication Technology at HanzeZernike College Zuidlaren
English, Dutch, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
simulation10
signalr10
csharp10
api9
game-development9
aurelia8
graphql-playground8
javascript-api8
javascript7
solc7
web3js7
webapi7
ethereum7
conventions7
swarm7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
embracesbs/conventions
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
GraphQL Conventions Library for .NET
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year
conventionsdotnetdotnet-coregraphql
Miragecoder/WmaJpg2Mp3
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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