Thijs Dreef
Software Engineer at MotherDuck
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolThijs Dreef is a software engineer with nine years of experience who blends a strong academic trajectory—currently pursuing an MSc in Computer Science at VU Amsterdam and UvA—with hands-on work in modern web graphics and performance engineering. He has built WebGL and WebAssembly expertise through roles ranging from WebGL intern to junior developer and has applied that foundation in healthcare and database-oriented teams like Quantib, DeepHealth, and the Database Architectures Group at CWI. Recently joining MotherDuck, Thijs focuses on accelerating graph and path-finding workloads (including GPU-accelerated work on DuckPGQ), showing a rare combination of low-level performance tuning and web-native technologies. Based in the Randstad, he maintains a public portfolio at thijsdreef.com and brings a pragmatic, research-informed approach to shipping performant, cross-domain systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Bachelor of Science - BSc Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer, Bachelor of Science - BSc Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesMbo4 Game Development, Mbo4 Game Development at Mediacollege Amsterdam
Github Skills (3)
relational-databases4
graph4
sql3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ThijsDreef/pp-barricade
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:47 PRs, 62 pushes, 18 branches in 26 days
ThijsDreef/LifeSource
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:88 PRs, 85 pushes, 41 branches in 2 months
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