Sander Van Schoote
Lead Software Engineer at Kraken
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSander Van Schoote is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and CI/CD platforms, currently leading engineering at Kraken in Queensland. He blends deep backend expertise in Java/Spring Boot and Python with hands-on experience in embedded systems and Ruby on Rails, informed by an MSc in Electronics Engineering from Ghent University. His career spans telecom and video at Cisco—transforming large-scale video products to AWS-based microservices—to energy and building automation at OpenMotics and Kraken, focusing on operational efficiency for complex real-world systems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved HLS playback reliability in the popular Clappr media player, showing attention to edge-case stability in streaming. Colleagues describe him as an architect-developer who bridges hardware-aware engineering with cloud-scale software design. He’s also a space enthusiast, bringing curiosity and systems thinking to every project.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Electronics Engineering, Master of Science, Electronics Engineering at Ghent University
German, French, Dutch, English
Github Skills (9)
html10
videojs10
javascript10
hlsl10
movie-player10
html5-video10
video-player10
player10
clappr9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
clappr/clappr
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
:clapper: An extensible media player for the web.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sander primarily contributed to the `clappr/clappr` repository by adding and modifying options related to the `flushLiveURLCache` parameter within the HLS playback component. This involved initializing the parameter, addressing bugs with undefined values, and optimizing its implementation using ternary operators. The focus of the work was on enhancing the functionality and reliability of video playback, specifically for HLS streams, within the Clappr media player.
dashhtml5-audiohtml5-videomp4javascript
openmotics/statsd-exporter
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
A fork of pystatsd with statsd exporter compatible tag support
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 7 months
telegramtelegram-botpythontelegraf
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