Robert-jan Huijsman is a Founding Engineer based in Copenhagen with nine years of experience building distributed systems and developer-focused products. He held software engineering roles at Google working on Spanner, Firebase, and Cloud Functions before co-founding Tracis and later reboot.dev, where he combines platform-level engineering with startup execution. Trained with an MSc in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems, he brings deep systems knowledge to pragmatic product work—bridging large-scale backend reliability and fast iteration in early-stage companies. Known for translating complex consistency and scalability challenges into maintainable code, he favors solutions that scale from prototype to production.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems, Master of Science (MSc) Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Robert-jan Huijsman - Founding Engineer at reboot.dev