# Bastiaan (@strootje.com)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/strootje.com
Headline: Senior developer
Website: https://links.strootje.com/

## About

Mijn ervaring in het kort:- Gespecializeerd in de microsoft stack (Azure, .NET, DevOps).- Ervaart veel plezier aan jonge developers begeleiden.- Zowel legacy projecten modernizeren als nieuwe projecten opzetten.- Jaren lang ervaring met Senior rollen en ondertussen ook een paar jaar als Lead en Architect.- Meerdere bedrijven geholpen hun Agile processen te verbeteren.- Meerdere bedrijven geholpen hun Test automatisering op te zetten. (Toevoegen unit tests, code refactoren zodat testen mogelijk is, toevoegen integratie testen en blackbox testing)Waar ik graag nog in wil groeien de komende jaren:- Ik heb al een hoop frontend ervaring maar wil graag nog meer hands-on ervaring hiermee op doen.- Nu .NET open source is, en microsoft de linux stack aan het omarmen is, hier meer mee aan de slag.- Meer schrijven en educeren over programmeren.

## Career

- **Tech lead & Senior developer at Rabobank** (Mar 2026 - Present)
- **Full Stack Engineer (Lead) at JEX** (Feb 2024 - Mar 2026)
- **Senior Software Developer at Strooware Interactive** (Feb 2022 - Feb 2024)
- **Senior Software Developer at Athora Netherlands** (Feb 2022 - Oct 2023)
- **Senior Lead Developer at Cargoguide International** (Sep 2019 - Feb 2022)
  At cargoguide my goal was lifting my team up to the next level. My focus was on readability, maintainability and testability of the codebase. To reach this goal we implemented static and manual code analyses and coaching of the team.
- **Senior Lead Developer at PGGM** (Jan 2019 - Aug 2019)
  I naturally assumed the role of Team Lead in PGGM.
  
  Some of my accomplishments:
  \* I helped the organization transfer to a GIT minded workflow by providing the knowledge and the mindset and giving a few in-house trainings.
  \* I helped inspire a feeling of responsibility with my team for the software we were responsible for. This manifested itself in lots of additional automated tests but mainly in a new mindset of wanting to deliver better software.
- **IT Professional at PGGM** (Aug 2016 - Dec 2018)
  My goal at PGGM initially started as blasting some young blood into the organisation and bringing fresh idea's to old software.
  
  Some key results I managed:
  \* I've made it possible to deliver the old monolithic legacy application to PROD every 2 weeks. I've done this by extensively talking to everyone involved and automating the process one step at a time.
  \* I helped with getting closer to having all the DevOps roles within the team. First by setting an example and taking the required trainings. And afterward by helping team members to expand their comfort zones.
- **Software Developer at DotControl | Digital Agency** (Aug 2014 - Aug 2016)
  At DotControl we develop awesome products for our awesome clients. We strive to make everything we make 110% technically awesome! We do this by incorporation the latest tech and pushing it to it's limit. Some of the things we use are: C#, .NET, Hangfire, Autofac, IoC, REST API's, AngularJS, SignalR and many more.
  
  My current responsibilities include:
  \* Development of new features (and bugs)
  \* Testing code and managing the Continues Integration Process
  \* Deployment of new code to the production environment
- **Freelancer at Comwave bv** (Sep 2011 - Aug 2014)
  At Comwave we helped our customers with all the web-based needs. We gave advice on websites, marketing and email campaigns.
  
  We worked with a in-house developed CMS and mailtool, both written in PHP5, which enabled us to tweak every little detail to tailor it to the needs of our customers.
  
  The front-end was mainly written in plain HTML with CSS, javascript and jQuery. We used these libraries to provide live social media connections with platforms like twitter and facebook.
- **Web Developer at CyberNed Internet Services** (Sep 2009 - Sep 2010)
  Development of web systems.

## Skills

### Technical
- .NET
- .NET Core
- Angular
- AngularJS
- Apollo GraphQL
- ASP.NET Core
- ASP.NET MVC
- C#
- C++
- Cloud Computing
- Code Refactoring
- css
- Databases
- DevOps
- Docker
- Git
- Go (Programming Language)
- GraphQL
- HTML
- JavaScript
- JIRA
- Kubernetes
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- nodejs
- Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
- React.js
- Software Architecture
- Software Development
- SQL
- Tailwind CSS
- Test-Driven Development
- TypeScript
- Unit Testing
- vue js
- webpack
### Business
- Agile Methodologies
- Scrum
### Interpersonal
- Coaching
- English
### Other
- .NET in Azure
- Autofac
- Azure DevOps Services
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
- Dependency Injection
- DirectX
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Entity Framework
- front end
- Modular Micro-frontends
- Nx
- OpenAL
- OpenGL
- Release Management
- SDL
- Team Foundation Server (TFS)
- Travis CI

## Projects

- **Shelfast** — http://www.shelfast.com/ (2015 - 2016)
  Shelfast is a fastgrowing startup company that provices it's customers with a platform to connect all of their ERP (lightspeed, magento, etc..) products to any marketplace (bol, amazon, ect..) with just the click of a button. It increases the range and skyrockets it's customers growth.
- **Eventler Checkin Application** — https://eventler.nl/features#1048 (Aug 2014 - 2015)
  The Checkin application is the companion (windows) app that assists with checkins for the Eventler platform. The app provices a solid offline solution that scales well on locations with OR without internet connection.
- **Eventler** — http://www.eventler.nl/ (Jan 2006 - 2007)
  The Eventler platform provides the most basically premium registration on the market! Eventler is build using some of the latest tech in web development available. Our back-end is driven by scheduled jobs in hangfire. The frond-end talks to our Restful API, which in turn is build on the latest .NET WebApi tech combined with libraries suchs as automapper and ODATA.

## Credentials

- Professional Scrum Master I — Scrum.org (Nov 2023) https://www.credly.com/badges/fe886011-6242-4ca0-878b-60f89d60c78a
- Growth Hacker (basic) — RockBoost - The Dutch Growth Hacking Agency (Jun 2016)

## Education

- **De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences** — Bachelor’s Degree (2011 - 2014)
  We learned how to work in a pragmatic and laguage-agnostic manner. Always using abstract thinking to solve problems. This enabled us to create maintainable and scalable projects.
  
  We got plenty of opportunity to experience real world problems. Companies like Infosupport provided extra classes and workshops to teach us about the tech that was currently being used. Tech like Entity Framework, C# .NET, MVC, Razor and AngularJS.
  
  I specialized in the following minors:
  \* 3D Game Engine development with DirectX in C++. We created our own 3D game engine, including renderer, scene manager, asset manager, window manager, sound manager.
  \* Augmented Reality Game development & research with OpenCV in C++. We used the Irrlicht 3D Graphics engine.
- **ROC ASA Utrecht** — MBO (2008 - 2011)

## Involvement

### Volunteering
- Bezig Bij (Oct 2021 - Present)
  Stable Boy
  Cleaning the stables and taking care of the horses at Bezig Bij
- Stichting Dierentehuis Zeist e.o (May 2016 - 2019)
  Helping hand
  My usual activities include:
  \* Cleaning the dog kennels
  \* Walking the dogs
  \* Helping out with chores
  \* Playing with the dogs

## Languages

- Dutch (native)
- English (native)
- Japanese (elementary)

## Links

- website: https://links.strootje.com/