Sander Brand
Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSander Brand is a pragmatic full-stack engineer and SRE with 13 years of experience building and maintaining web applications, DevOps infrastructure, and community-driven projects from Zwolle, Netherlands. He’s shipped product-facing systems as a Full Stack Developer and Senior Site Reliability Engineer at companies like EveryOffice and Blockdaemon, while also founding and evolving FriendStream — a social aggregator maintained across multiple major updates. An active open-source contributor, Sander has touched both front-end (ownCloud) and back-end automation (PokemonGo bot core), and runs several personal projects on GitHub including a password manager and encrypted note service. He blends hands-on server and database ops with polished front-end work, and often implements pragmatic security features such as client-side encryption. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who writes most of his code for himself first, then shares useful tools with the community.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
DeltionOBS Het Kompas
Dutch, English
Github Skills (14)
bots10
automation10
php10
automations10
owncloud10
pokemongo10
python10
googlebot10
scripting9
mobile-development9
file-sharing8
timed8
html8
javascript6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
PokemonGoF/PokemonGo-Bot
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
The Pokemon Go Bot, baking with community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 32 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sander primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Pokemon Go bot, modifying code related to Pokémon capture, interaction with Pokestops, and movement within the game. They implemented features such as adding jitter to sleep functions to simulate human behavior and fixing authentication issues. The user also worked on the bot's logic, including evolving Pokémon, and refining the bot's ability to interact with the game.
pythonpokemongofdiscordbotdiscord-bot
owncloud/core
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
:cloud: ownCloud web server core (Files, DAV, etc.)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 comments, 3 issues in 22 days
Contributions summary:Sander primarily contributed to the front-end of the ownCloud web server core. They focused on modifying the `layout.user.php` template, adding and adjusting metadata tags related to mobile web app capabilities and the application title. This involved ensuring the application's compatibility and responsiveness across different devices. The user also made a small change to the `server.php` file.
owncloudweb-serverjstreeself-hostingjavascript
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