Rutger Prins
Software Engineer at Brenntag
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRutger Prins is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with over a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale backend and data-driven systems. He has a strong track record modernizing monoliths into microservices and optimizing Python/Postgres stacks to improve performance and reduce cloud costs. Rutger has driven architecture and data-model decisions on security and threat-intel platforms, led a company-wide Python community of practice, and built high-throughput real-time fraud-detection and auction recommendation systems. Practical, hands-on, and metrics-focused, he combines deep backend engineering with operational experience in AWS, Elasticsearch, and deployment automation. A Delft Computer Science graduate, he pairs academic rigor with a history of tackling performance bottlenecks that materially cut latency and costs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
VWO 2000, VWO 2000 at Hermann Wesselink CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
Dutch
Github Skills (26)
testing9
unit-testing9
pytest9
python9
httpx8
functional-testing8
java8
jwt6
dot6
cyber-threat-intelligence5
jsonwebtoken4
emacs4
karabiner3
magit3
forge3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rjprins/fastapi-restly
May 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:74 pushes, 9 branches, 2 tags in 1 year 2 months
rjprins/rjprins.github.io
Aug 2024 - Nov 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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