Summary
Ryan Vlaming is a pragmatic backend engineer with 11 years' experience building high-performance systems in Node.js, Go, and C, currently focused on performance engineering at Microsoft. He has worked across HPC, compiler research, and distributed cluster tooling—authoring cluster management solutions scalable to tens of thousands of nodes and researching language design for HPC in an academic thesis. At Microsoft he shipped low-latency messaging work for Teams and continues to push sub-2ms perf optimizations. Comfortable from prototyping cutting-edge tech like WebAssembly to production backend services, he also mentors students in systems fundamentals and OS concepts. Based in Rotterdam with ties to Czechia, he’s selective about roles (notably declining PHP offers) and brings a blend of systems-level curiosity and pragmatic product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
MBO4, Web development, MBO4, Web development at Mediacollege Amsterdam
English, Dutch