Ruud Burger
Principal Software Engineer at Plex, Inc.
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRuud Burger is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience blending interaction design and hands-on engineering to create intuitive, high-performance web and mobile apps. He combines senior UX/UI craft—rooted in a Master in Interaction Design—with deep frontend and backend skills (React, React Native and server-side integration), enabling him to lead projects from prototype to production. His career spans roles from technical architect at Polestar to principal engineering at Plex, plus freelance work for high-profile clients like North Sea Jazz and De Nederlandsche Bank. An active contributor to open-source (notably backend improvements in CouchPotatoServer), he focuses on reliability, secure integrations and making every interaction feel natural. Based in Utrecht, he’s known for stepping into both design and code to make pragmatic decisions at key milestones.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master Interaction Design, Master Interaction Design at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)
Dutch, English
Github Skills (6)
dependency-management10
backend10
python10
http-request10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CouchPotato/CouchPotatoServer
Feb 2011 - Jun 2020
Automatic Movie Downloading via NZBs & Torrents
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 4336 commits, 372 PRs in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ruud primarily worked on back-end code, specifically updating and integrating libraries such as httplib2, urllib3, and other dependencies within the CouchPotatoServer project. The contributions included code modifications and refactoring that improved the reliability of the codebase, such as checking authentication and applying the use of https. These changes suggest a focus on improving the core functionality of the server-side infrastructure for the application.
torrent
CouchPotato/Browser-Extension
Nov 2012 - Jun 2017
Browser extension for CouchPotato build with Kango
Contributions:28 commits, 9 pushes, 14 comments in 4 years 7 months
browser-extension
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