Stefan Frijters is a Scientific Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance, reproducible scientific software for HPC environments. He combines deep computational physics background (PhD-level research in fluid dynamics) with hands-on development in C/C++, Fortran, Rust and Python, and expertise in parallelisation using OpenMP, MPI and emerging GPU backends. Stefan is passionate about typesafe and functional languages, Nix/NixOS-based reproducible workflows, and designing rigorous test suites that catch obscure bugs. He has led small teams, set up CI/CD and automated testing infrastructure, and translated Excel-based workflows into robust GUI tools, showing a knack for turning messy real-world processes into maintainable software. Preferring 32-hour work weeks and roles adjacent to cutting-edge science, he explicitly avoids adtech, fintech, crypto and fossil-fuel applications. A practical polyglot and advocate for functional programming, he quietly fostered a Haskell study group at his workplace to raise internal competence.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics at Utrecht University
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