Tom De Brouwer
Principal Architect at Merapar
Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolTom De Brouwer is a Principal Architect with 11 years of professional experience designing full-stack and embedded software, currently leading architecture at Merapar. He combines deep C++ and test automation expertise with cloud-native deployments on AWS and GCP to deliver robust, production-grade systems. Tom brings domain-specialized knowledge in professional media and audio protocols—WebRTC, NMOS, AES70, SMPTE2110 and Dante—enabling him to bridge realtime audio engineering needs with scalable software architectures. His background at Bosch and long tenure in security and embedded product teams give him a practical, standards-driven approach to complex integrations. Known for improving project efficiency through pragmatic use of new technologies, he pairs hands-on engineering with an ear for audio nuance that informs better product design. Based in Breda, Netherlands, he often blends hobbyist audio engineering insight into professional solutions, a less obvious cross-disciplinary strength.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at Avans Hogeschool Breda
Github Skills (77)
sctp10
libnice10
rtcpeerconnection10
datachannel10
rtcdatachannel10
libdatachannel10
lambda9
webtransport9
peer-to-peer9
testing9
networked9
performance-testing9
websocket9
cpp9
mediasoup9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OCAAlliance/OcaToolsAndDemos
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Source code repository of OCAMicro and AES70 Compliancy Test Tool
Contributions:58 releases, 189 commits, 20 PRs in 5 years 2 months
aes70testingocacode-repositoryocamicro
merapar/iot-meetup
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Repository containing all files used in the hands-on IoT meetup
Contributions:9 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
handshands-oniot
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