Breus Blaauwendraad
Tech Lead at Adyen
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBreus Blaauwendraad is a seasoned technology leader with about a decade of backend and platform engineering experience, currently guiding Adyen's engineering as Tech Lead in the Netherlands. He leads the core Java frameworks that power Adyen's web stack and asynchronous processing, enabling over 2 billion HTTP requests daily and used by 600+ engineers across more than 90% of Java applications at the company. In previous roles at Adyen, he steered squad-level Java development and platform scalability, driving the shift to a modern open-source stack now adopted by a majority of Java projects. His background spans research and security, including a post-quantum hash-based cryptography project implemented in Go and security-focused sessions, with cum laude master's degrees from Radboud University Nijmegen and Eindhoven University of Technology (and an exchange at Chalmers). He also led internal DevOps tooling and knowledge-management initiatives, illustrating a rare mix of hands-on coding, architecture, and people leadership.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Business & Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business & Information Technology at University of TwenteMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Cum Laude, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Cum Laude at Eindhoven University of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Cum Laude, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Cum Laude at Radboud University NijmegenExchange / Minor, Computer Science, Exchange / Minor, Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology
English, Dutch
Github Skills (61)
kotlin10
json10
spec10
restful-api10
api-client10
spring-jdbc10
generator10
openapi310
mybatis10
java10
orm-framework10
jackson10
rest-client10
rest10
api10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Breus/json-masker
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
High-performance JSON masker library in Java with no runtime dependencies
Contributions:6 releases, 217 reviews, 74 commits in 1 year
anonymizationperformancepii-anonymizationjacksonjava
Breus/MBPQS
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:94 commits, 82 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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