Tim Soethout
IT Engineer IV at ING Nederland
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTim Soethout is an IT Engineer IV with 12 years of experience combining industrial engineering at ING and award-winning academic research in distributed transactions. He champions Scala and functional programming, building reusable API building blocks and training teams to adopt principled, composable solutions. His PhD work—recognized with the VERSEN Thesis Award—bridges declarative specifications and performant synchronization strategies, informing pragmatic designs for scalable systems. Comfortable across backend, static analysis and cloud-native tooling, he brings a cognitive-AI mindset that encourages multiple perspectives on hard problems. Outside work he tinker s with small usability hacks and enjoys squash, swimming, dance and music, reflecting a hands-on, curious approach to both tech and life.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Eindhoven University of TechnologyGymnasium (VWO), NT, Gymnasium (VWO), NT at Stanislascollege WestplantsoenBachelor of Science (BSc), Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Cognitive Artificial Intelligence at Universiteit Utrecht / University of Utrecht
English, Dutch
Github Skills (200)
python10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
docker-compose10
pv10
home-automation10
tlaplus10
iot10
zigbee10
tla10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
raspberry-pi10
golang9
relational-algebra9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
scala-academy/castalia
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
API stub server
Contributions:32 commits, 19 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 months
apistubstub-serverstub-apiserver
TimSoethout/implicits-inspected-and-explained-slides
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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