Swen Kooij
Principal Software Engineer at Sector Labs
Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSwen Kooij is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable systems and shipping products in fast-growing startups. He joined Sector Labs as the first employee and helped grow it from a small team to ~50 people while leading development of two real-estate portals serving millions of users. Comfortable across C++, Python, Django, Qt/QML and embedded tooling, he has delivered high-performance media servers, firmware update flows, and SocketCAN integrations for e-bike drivetrains. Swen blends hands-on implementation with improving developer workflows—maturing CI/CD, tooling and release processes at multiple companies. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, he thrives on turning complex technical constraints into reliable production systems and has a knack for connecting low-level engineering with user-facing product impact.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Applicatie OntwikkelingVMBO
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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23answers
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
protoc10
automation10
appium10
keycloak-server10
browser10
image-gallery10
cucumber10
nodejs10
webdriverio10
interchange10
python10
image-slider10
html-webpack-plugin10
django10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SectorLabs/celery
Nov 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 2 PRs in 5 years 11 months
task-queueworkerdistributed-systemsmicroservicesraft
SectorLabs/sentry-source-maps-webpack-plugin
Dec 2017 - Oct 2020
Upload source maps to Sentry automatically.
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
webpack-pluginravensentrysource-maps
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