Wouter Danes
Staff Engineer at Picnic Technologies
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWouter Danes is a Staff Engineer and seasoned engineering manager based in The Hague with 12 years of experience architecting and leading developer platforms and large-scale digital services. He blends hands-on programming, platform architecture and agile coaching to empower teams to deliver reliable, scalable systems—recently exploring AI agents that translate Jira tickets into implemented code. His career spans technical leadership roles across Picnic, PostNL and ING, plus long-term open-source commitment as a Hippo CMS committer, reflecting a balance of product-focused delivery and community-driven contributions. Known for mentoring, entrepreneurship and ops-savvy architecture, he brings practical systems engineering training from Delft and a knack for turning complex operational needs into observable, maintainable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Business Course, Certificate Business Course at Ohio UniversityCertificate Systems Engineering and Policy Analysis, Certificate Systems Engineering and Policy Analysis at Delft University of TechnologyHigh School Gymnasium Beta, High School Gymnasium Beta at Fioretti
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (73)
maven-plugin10
maven10
single-page10
java10
ip-address10
docker10
react8
memcached8
mustache8
multimarkdown7
finagle7
zipkin7
thrift6
gatling6
fault6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wouterd/go-reverse-proxy
Dec 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 5 months
wouterd/mustache-maven-plugin
Feb 2014 - Mar 2017
A maven plugin to process mustache templates in a maven build
Contributions:44 commits, 5 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 2 months
maven-plugingatlingmavenmustache-templatesmaven-build
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