Sebastiaan Klippert
Lead Solution Architect at LKQ Europe
Eijsden, Limburg, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSebastiaan Klippert is a seasoned solution architect and hands-on software engineer with 11+ years of professional experience and a software engineering background from Hogeschool Zuyd. Currently leading solution architecture at LKQ Europe after eight years shaping platform and integration strategy at Car-Systems, he blends deep backend implementation experience with pragmatic system design. He remains an active coder—his open-source Go wrapper for wkhtmltopdf demonstrates attention to practical tooling, modular APIs and test coverage. Comfortable across C#, C++ and Go, he has a track record of turning legacy systems into maintainable solutions while keeping delivery aligned with business needs. Based in Eijsden, Netherlands, he brings a long view from early UI and CRM projects to enterprise-grade architecture, often favoring pragmatic, well-tested approaches over theoretical complexity.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Hoger algemeen voortgezet onderwijs (Havo), Hoger algemeen voortgezet onderwijs (Havo) at Sint Maartens College MaastrichtInformatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer, Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer at Hogeschool Zuyd (Maastricht, Heerlen, Sittard)
Github Skills (7)
html10
golang10
pdf-generation10
pdf10
go10
html-to-pdf10
wkhtmltopdf10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SebastiaanKlippert/go-wkhtmltopdf
Nov 2015 - Nov 2022
Golang commandline wrapper for wkhtmltopdf
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 135 commits, 17 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sebastiaan focused on developing a Go command-line wrapper for `wkhtmltopdf`. The primary contribution involved defining and implementing various options for configuring the PDF generation process. They also worked on creating methods and structs to facilitate the conversion of HTML to PDF, including the ability to set output writers and handle different input page types. Additionally, the user ensured the library's compatibility with Go modules and integrated tests for different functionalities.
golangpdfwkhtmltopdfhtml-to-pdfpdf-generation
SebastiaanKlippert/go-soda
Oct 2015 - Sep 2021
Socrata Open Data API (SODA) GET client for Golang
Contributions:2 releases, 51 commits, 4 PRs in 6 years
golangapidata-apisocratasoda
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