About me

Hi there, I’m Nils de Groot, a software engineer from the Netherlands based in Almere. Some of my primary programming skills include but are not limited to:

Rust
Kotlin
Typescript

Working experience

Reclamefolder

Software engineer. Jun 2024.

Develop the Rust backend on the greenfield project for https://www.reclamefolder.nl/

Cloudflight

Software engineer. Jun 2022 - May 2024.

At Cloudflight I working a wide set of projects. Some key points here include:

Develop java software for a big logistics company working with multiple teams, consult on future solutions and move away from a legacy system with a data migration.
Develop and consult on software in the public sector moving from a legacy system to the new system using Kotlin.
Consult on how to start POC’s for new and existing customer for Cloudflight itself.
Implement a internal data lake, connecting a internally build set of tool with Microsoft Fabric.
Develop a new data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric for usage in reporting for a company in the energy sector.

Internship software engineering. Feb 2022 - May 2022

Before my main work at Cloudflight, I started out with a internship, finishing my education at Windesheim. In this period I worked on two projects.

Develop java software for a big logistics company working with multiple teams, consult on future solutions and move away from a legacy system with a data migration.
Work in a Kanban setting on a new tool for usage in the logistics sector written in Kotlin.

Rysst

Software engineer. Feb 2021 - Feb 2022

During my studies I worked at Rysst where I worked at a big web store in the Netherlands. Here I worked in a Scrum team, developing a image pipeline from scraping to optimizing the image. This system was build in the Rust programming language and tools used include Postgres and AWS.

Mitsubishi Turbocharger and Engine Europe

Internship software engineering. Sep 2021 - Jan 2022

At Mitsubishi I worked on a planning system which they used to plan turbocharger production in the factory itself. This system was build in VB.net and uses a SQL-Server database.

Isset Internet Professionals

Internship web development. Feb 2020 - Aug 2020

At isset, we were building a video plantform. Here I worked in a PHP Symphony back-end with a react frontend with a Wordpress plugin to couple to the system.

JWE

Web developer. Apr 2019 - Jan 2020

At JWE, I worked on various Laravel simple applications as well as a React-native application.

Certification’s

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate. Dec 2023.

Education

Bachelor’s degree - Windesheim Almere, Computer software engineering. 2020 - 2022
Associates degree - Windesheim Almere, Computer software development. 2018 - 2020
ICT Campus Hilversum - High school, Computer software development. 2015 - 2018