Werner Hofstra
Software Engineer at Miro
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolWerner Hofstra is a polyglot software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable systems and leading teams across e-commerce and SaaS companies in the Netherlands. He has moved between hands-on engineering and leadership roles at bol.com and Miro, shipping resilient content pipelines, event systems, and developer tooling using Go, Rust, Python, Elixir and Kafka. Comfortable architecting data-intensive backends and integrating third‑party platforms, Werner also has a track record of knowledge sharing through tech talks, onboarding and running hackathons. Beyond software, he co-runs a creative music project as a producer and guitarist, bringing a practiced ear for composition and attention to quality into his engineering work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Chemie/Scheikunde (Chemistry), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Chemie/Scheikunde (Chemistry) at University of Groningen
English, Dutch, west-fries, Russian
Github Skills (60)
file-management10
fat10
react-native10
lifecycle10
io-uring10
ftp10
ftp-client10
ftps10
mattermost10
golang10
monorepo10
extensible10
ftp-server10
collaboration10
server10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wgfm/deck
Jun 2018 - Nov 2024
Deck of playing cards
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 5 months
javascriptplaying-cardsplayingdeck
wgfm/wgfm.github.io
Mar 2019 - Feb 2021
The Kjeld homepage, at kjeld.frl
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 10 months
backbonejsmhealth
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