Robert Barnhoorn
Data Engineering Team Lead
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRobert Barnhoorn is a Data Engineering Team Lead based in London with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale data and systems platforms. Currently leading Data Platform EMEA at Squarepoint Capital, he progressed from data engineering into team leadership while driving production-grade infrastructure and platform reliability. His background includes device systems programming for Prime Video and orchestration of EC2 fleets at AWS, reflecting deep expertise across distributed systems, embedded device ecosystems, and cloud infrastructure. Trained in computer science and games development at the University of Cape Town, he brings a practical, performance-minded engineering approach and a knack for bridging low-level systems thinking with data platform needs. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex operational requirements into maintainable tooling and processes that scale across global teams.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc., Computer Science and Computer Games Development, Bachelor of Science - BSc., Computer Science and Computer Games Development at University of Cape Town
Github Skills (2)
opengl2
game-engine2
Github contributions (5)
RobbieBarnhoorn/MonkeyWarriors
Oct 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 6 months
2d-platformer2d-platformer-gamegameplatformeropengl
RobertBarnhoorn/PyCog
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:10 commits in 2 months
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