Tjaco Oostdijk
Senior Elixir Engineer at DPG Media IT
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTjaco Oostdijk is a Senior Elixir Engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of software experience, known for pragmatically shipping reliable systems across Elixir, Ruby on Rails and React stacks. He currently builds resilient backend services at DPG Media and has a track record of migrating and rearchitecting products to Elixir (notably rewriting Froodi from Rails to Phoenix). Comfortable across the full stack, Tjaco pairs hands-on coding with consulting work for organizations like T-Mobile, the City of Antwerp and the University of Utrecht. Beyond engineering he brings a creative mindset from a parallel career as a professional drummer and music educator, which informs his collaborative and iterative approach. A perpetual learner and self-taught web developer, he favors pragmatic solutions that balance developer experience and operational robustness. Colleagues describe him as an Elixir enthusiast who gets the job done without overengineering.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Self TaughtMaster of Music, Jazz Drums | Jazz Vibes, Master of Music, Jazz Drums | Jazz Vibes at Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de KunstenSt. Willibrord College
English, Dutch
Github Skills (36)
wallaby10
ecto10
testing9
concurrent9
elixir9
timezone9
guardian8
liveview8
browser8
plug8
nodejs8
experiences8
cron7
javascript7
phoenix-liveview7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
drumusician/student_manager
May 2019 - Nov 2019
Student Manager
Contributions:7 PRs, 25 pushes, 7 branches in 6 months
drumusician/drumusician.github.io
May 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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