Rubenย Stranders
Owner And CTO at FireServiceRota
Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRuben Stranders is a founder-led CTO with 13 years of experience building mission-driven software that keeps fire stations ready and firefighters balanced between duty and life. As founder of FireServiceRota and Brandweerrooster he has scaled scheduling and alerting platforms used by thousands of retained and full-time firefighters across multiple countries, blending domain expertise from frontline staff with robust engineering. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and applies research-grade multi-agent and AI thinking to practical problems like crew availability, smart alerting and resource optimisation. Ruben has also taught AI and launched data-driven civic projects, demonstrating a rare mix of academic depth, product intuition and hands-on delivery. An understated strength is his ability to translate firefighter needs into adaptable, easy-to-use systems that customers consistently praise for flexibility and collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of SouthamptonMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, Spanish
Github Skills (112)
axlsx10
unicorn10
width10
activemodel10
compilation10
upstream10
capistrano10
plugin10
nginx-configuration10
lucee9
validation9
geocoding9
html9
ruby9
mvc9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rhomeister/mobile-sensors-max-sum
Apr 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:3 commits in 3 months
capistrano-plugins/capistrano-unicorn-nginx
Oct 2014 - Mar 2018
Capistrano tasks for automatic and sensible unicorn + nginx configuration
Contributions:38 commits, 21 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 years 5 months
nginxnginx-configurationsensibleupstreamplugin
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