Walter Huf
Senior Backend Engineer at bunq
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWalter Huf is a Senior Backend Engineer based in The Hague with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale Linux and distributed systems. He has driven reliability and automation at major tech companies—most recently developing a custom autoremediation framework at LinkedIn and now contributing backend engineering at bunq. His background spans hands-on SRE work (including a zero-downtime migration of 5,000 production servers), satellite-ground compute operations, and cloud telecom infrastructure, giving him deep expertise in systems automation, deployment tooling, and monitoring integrations. Walter combines platform-level thinking with practical scripting and cluster automation skills, and he often partners with foundational teams to improve developer experience around operational workflows. Known for turning complex upgrade and migration challenges into repeatable processes, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability, observability, and lifecycle automation.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Software Engineering, Bachelor Software Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
English, Esperanto
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Github Skills (200)
material-you10
automation10
paging10
puppet10
broadcasting10
home-automation10
escalation10
frontend10
messaging10
python10
home-assistant10
accelerometer10
mqtt10
pcsc10
ffmpeg10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hufman/home-assistant
Sep 2017 - Apr 2021
:house_with_garden: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
Contributions:21 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
raspberry-pipythonhousegardenmqtt
BimmerGestalt/BMWConnectedAnalysis
Dec 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:48 commits, 64 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 5 months
reverse-engineeringautomotiveinfotainmentbmw-idrive
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