Sander Smits
Senior Backend Engineer at DeepHealth
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSander Smits is a Senior Backend Engineer in Utrecht with 17 years of experience building reliable, product-focused systems for healthcare and geospatial domains. Trained as an MD and PhD in Vascular Medicine, he brings rare clinical insight to AI-driven medical software, having spent six years at Aidence (now part of DeepHealth) and continuing there as a senior backend engineer. He combines pragmatic, analytical problem solving with hands-on technical leadership from roles as tech lead and long-term developer at Nelen & Schuurmans. Comfortable spanning research and production, Sander excels at turning clinical requirements into robust backend architectures for regulated environments. Colleagues describe him as curious, diligent and pragmatic—qualities that help bridge the gap between medicine, data and scalable engineering. An unusual strength is his clinician-researcher background, which informs both product decisions and trustworthy implementation of medical AI systems.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
St. Willibrord GymnasiumPhD Vascular Medicine, PhD Vascular Medicine at Utrecht University
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (89)
mysql-database10
databases10
couchdb10
minio10
docker-compose10
elk10
logstash10
predict10
netlify10
vscode10
nodejs10
mongodb10
docker10
redis10
php10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jsmits/shf
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Simple SSH host finder
Contributions:42 commits, 24 PRs, 68 pushes in 2 months
sshhostfinder
jsmits/github-cli
Apr 2009 - Aug 2012
Contributions:151 commits, 1 comment, 2 issues in 3 years 4 months
apicommand-line-interfacecli
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