Samir Boulema is a seasoned software developer with 12 years of experience building and operating scalable services and user-focused frontends from the Netherlands. He has led engineering at auto.nl, architecting Azure infrastructure and maintaining 50+ microservices, and previously guided mobile and web teams at Funda and Parkmobile. Samir pairs hands-on coding—demonstrated by front-end contributions to the popular open-source Hoppscotch API client—with systems-level skills in MongoDB, automated UI testing, and cloud architecture. He currently develops at NWWI while also running a small craft-brewing venture, reflecting a pragmatic maker’s mindset and appetite for experimentation. Comfortable across full-stack concerns, Samir excels at improving developer and user experiences by bridging infrastructure, APIs and intuitive UI.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Atheneum Nature & Technology, Atheneum Nature & Technology at Sint Nicolaas Lyceum Amsterdam
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io (open-source alternative to Postman, Insomnia)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 1 push in 13 days
Contributions summary:Samir primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Hoppscotch API client. Their contributions included implementing features such as URL path parameters and a "prettify body" option for request payloads. They also worked on integrating GraphQL query editing capabilities and improving the user experience through UI adjustments, and the integration of environment variables, further demonstrating a focus on frontend development and user interface improvements.
A Visual Studio extension that checks and notifies about available updates for the installed NuGet packages for the open solution.
Contributions:30 PRs, 68 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
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Samir Boulema - Software Developer at Curleez & ME