Sjoerd Smink
Founder at Smink IT
Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSjoerd Smink is a founder and backend-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building user-centric cloud applications across AWS and Azure. He consistently operates at the intersection of IT and business, translating product needs into scalable backend systems while contributing full-stack work, infrastructure-as-code, and integrations with complex third-party systems like GP/HIS and DigiD. His career includes leading payment and check-in innovations for public transport at NS and a stealth startup at ING, showing a knack for simplifying real-world user flows. As founder of Smink IT and earlier startups, he combines entrepreneurial drive with hands-on delivery—setting up production systems, phone integrations and CMSes for healthcare platforms. He’s comfortable switching between technical tasks and business analysis, and often focuses on practical proofs-of-concept that unlock new product opportunities. Based in Houten, NL, he likes exploring new technologies and imagining how small technical changes can deliver measurable user and business impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Human Media Interaction, Master of Science (MSc), Human Media Interaction at University of TwenteAalborg UniversityRadboud University
Dutch, English, German, Danish
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Github Skills (125)
command-line-interface10
fluent-interface10
javascript9
sdk9
database9
cli9
azure9
stream9
postgresql9
azure-cli9
sap9
fluentd9
cordova9
react-native9
eventhub9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Tournia/tournia-site
Jun 2016 - Aug 2019
Main site of tournia.net
Contributions:108 commits, 2 PRs, 73 pushes in 3 years 1 month
fluent-interface
Tournia/app
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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