Sander Brinke
Senior Software Engineer Via Arcady at Niverplast
Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSander ten Brinke is a Senior Software Engineer and Microsoft MVP with 11 years of experience building cloud-native .NET solutions and leading back-end teams from the Netherlands. He combines hands-on engineering—migrating legacy Excel algorithms to Azure Functions, designing microservices and CI/CD pipelines—with coaching and knowledge-sharing as Arcady’s Knowledge Officer. Sander is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like the AWS .NET SDK and ASP.NET Core, where he improved DynamoDB date handling and OpenAPI documentation generation. His work spans distributed systems, CQRS, DDD, and Kubernetes, and he regularly modernizes infrastructures with Bicep and Azure best practices. Known for pragmatic, testable architectures, he also brings a rare focus on backwards compatibility and long-term data robustness (e.g., epoch long date support). Based in Overijssel, he speaks and blogs about .NET and cloud engineering, helping teams adopt new techniques while keeping production systems reliable.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO Hoger algemeen voortgezet onderwijs (Havo), HAVO Hoger algemeen voortgezet onderwijs (Havo) at Thomas a Kempis CollegeBachelor's degree HBO ICT, Bachelor's degree HBO ICT at Windesheim
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (24)
apidoc10
net10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
asp-net-core10
serialization10
amazon-dynamodb10
aws-sdk10
asp-net10
deserialization10
api10
dynamodb10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
openapi10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/aspnetcore
Dec 2018 - Mar 2025
ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 7 PRs, 60 comments in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sander primarily contributed to the ASP.NET Core project by adding and modifying attributes to generate better OpenAPI documentation. This involved adding descriptions to various attributes like `ProducesResponseType` and `ProducesAttribute`, and refactoring code to adhere to overload rules and fix compile issues. The user also worked on unit tests to ensure the correctness of the OpenAPI documentation generation, and incorporated case-insensitive handling of document names. These contributions improved API discoverability and documentation quality.
dotnetcoreweb-basedasp-netnet-coreasp-net-core
aws/aws-sdk-net
Aug 2024 - Feb 2025
The official AWS SDK for .NET. For more information on the AWS SDK for .NET, see our web site:
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 8 comments, 1 issue in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sander primarily focused on enhancing the `DynamoDBv2` service within the .NET SDK. They addressed issues related to data serialization and deserialization, specifically for DateTime values. Their contributions included code modifications to handle epoch time conversions, including the support of `long` values for dates beyond 2038, and the introduction of the `EpochLong` attribute. They also refactored the code to maintain backward compatibility with existing APIs.
dotnetweb-sitesdkaws-sdkcsharp
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