Thijs Broersen
Software Engineer at Roundworld
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolThijs Broersen is a pragmatic Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 10 years of experience building secure, high-performance backend systems using Scala and TypeScript. He has a strong track record in both greenfield and brownfield projects, delivering RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and data pipelines while applying secure development practices like Ory.sh integrations. Comfortable across backend, frontend and DevOps domains, he leverages CI/CD and Kubernetes to streamline deployments and drive operational resilience. His background in data science and optimization informs a data-driven approach to system design and performance tuning. At companies from Capgemini to DHL and Roundworld he has blended hands-on engineering with team leadership, often taking on end-to-end ownership of complex integrations.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Business Mathematics and Informatics, MSc Business Mathematics and Informatics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Github Skills (200)
swagger10
effects10
http-client10
openapi10
slf4j10
commons10
compose10
pattern10
warnings10
akka-streams10
uri10
json10
reflection10
concurrent10
database-access10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ThijsBroersen/zio-json
Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
Fast, secure JSON library with tight ZIO integration.
Contributions:76 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years 4 months
json-librarysecureziojson
L-space/L-space
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
L-space is a Linked Data graph computing framework written in Scala
Contributions:574 commits, 210 PRs, 419 pushes in 4 years 2 months
graph-computinggraph-datalinked-datasparkscala
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