Summary
Vasco Visser is a freelance software engineer based in Amsterdam with 12 years’ experience building production-grade systems at the intersection of machine learning, data engineering, backend development and DevOps. He has delivered scalable, low-latency services and online learning systems for e-commerce and media—driving measurable business impact such as higher push-open rates at DPG Media and integrating online learning into Lowe’s search backend. Comfortable across the stack, he designs cloud-native architectures with Terraform/Kubernetes, automates infrastructure, and emphasizes CI/CD, test automation and infrastructure-as-code. His background running large Hadoop/HBase clusters and building data-driven ETL workflows gives him deep operational fluency for high-volume data products. A hands-on engineer with a can-do mentality, he combines research roots (cum laude master’s thesis on MapReduce query optimization) with pragmatic production experience.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch