Erik Van Zijst
Owner at De Prutser
Eu, Normandy, Belgium
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Top SchoolErik Van Zijst is a seasoned software architect and founder with 17 years building large-scale distributed systems, particularly in finance and real-time streaming domains. He blends rigorous academic training in computer science with hands-on expertise in server-side architecture, peer-to-peer platforms, and low-latency middleware. His career spans founding Layerstream, leading architecture at MarketXS/Markit, scaling Bitbucket at Atlassian, and building the full-stack runtime and data pipelines for Ghost Autonomy’s retrofit autonomous vehicle platform. Now operating as an independent engineer in Europe, he pairs strategic systems thinking with pragmatic delivery across firmware, kernels, distributed runtimes and cloud infrastructure. Known for tackling hard infrastructure problems, he brings a rare mix of protocol-level intuition and product-focused execution.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Rotterdam University of Applied SciencesApplied Physics, Applied Physics at Delft University of TechnologyRegionale Scholengemeenschap "'t Rijks"
Dutch, English
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git
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bitbucket
top-1%
Github Skills (200)
libgit210
photo10
swagger10
oas10
gmail10
backup10
eeprom10
rest-api10
streamlit10
openapi10
javascript10
webcam10
atlassian10
dvcs10
rest10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
erikvanzijst/eeprom
May 2019 - Dec 2019
Arduino-Based Parallel EEPROM Programmer Circuit
Contributions:1 release, 36 commits, 39 pushes in 7 months
arduinoeepromelectronicselectronics-designcircuits
erikvanzijst/handheld
Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 131 commits, 141 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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