Kees Spoelstra
Director, Software Development DCF at Aviatrix
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolKees Spoelstra is a seasoned software leader and engineer with 12+ years of professional experience and a long history of hands-on work dating back to the mid-1990s, now directing Software Development DCF at Aviatrix. He blends low-level optimization, security, identity and imaging expertise with full‑stack architecture and high-performance web engineering, having founded multiple consultancies and led technical teams as CTO and Principal Engineer. Kees has a track record of porting and reverse-engineering projects (including IIS/mod_pagespeed work), building custom imaging and recognition libraries, and automating back-office systems—skills that make him equally comfortable in C/C++, C#, and web stacks. Based in Amsterdam, he’s known for turning complex legacy systems into performant, secure production services while keeping an owner’s curiosity for unconventional technical challenges.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of Amsterdam
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Github Skills (31)
cdn10
proxy10
pagespeed10
quic10
nginx10
caching-proxy10
apache9
rewriting9
bandwidth9
http9
htaccess9
latency9
httpd9
dotnet8
java7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
We-Amp/trafficserver
Jan 2017 - Sep 2018
Mirror of Apache Traffic Server
Contributions:3 pushes, 6 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 8 months
javahttpdapachetraffic
keesspoelstra/trafficserver
Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
scalableproxy-serverproxyhttp3compliant
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