Etienne Bruines

My tasks include organizing issues, creating pull requests to add new features / bugfixes and actively reviewing other PRs. In doing so, I'm also actively engaged in discussions with team members and users of the engine, to keep improving the engine.

Mostly backend-development, working alone or in pairs. Heavily related to varioius web-techniques and API implementations.

The Computer Science department asked me to develop a web-interface to work around the disliked Blackboard environment. Requirements were: usable from mobile phone, integration with existing student credentials (university-wide), and it should store/retrieve any data to/from the university Blackboard environment. The interface allowed for additional features Blackboard does not (such as attendance, code-highlighting in feedback, and more).

In 2010 I started with my own company called HuperWebs, which was focused on creating and maintaining websites. Doing this, I have had extensive hands-on experience with a lot of different environments (both Linux and Windows servers), using different languages for webservices (ASP.NET, Java, Python, Go, PHP, C), as well as the languages involved in the actual websites (HTML, CSS, Javascript). Unfortunately, in October 2015 I had to stop due to the excessive time my education required of me.

For several years, I have been assisting the teachers of the course Imperative Programming. My job was to verify the assignments students handed in, and give feedback regarding code quality and correctness. This course taught the basics of C/C++ programming, although most of the principles were also applicable to other imperative languages.

As part of my Artificial Intelligence course, I was working for Hyperleap for a few months, improving their database (MySQL) structure and highly optimizing their queries, as well as implement some methods (related to AI) to filter out duplicate / incorrect information — speed was key here.

As a part-time employee, I was responsible for helping customers within the wholesale business. My job was also to ensure the website was fully-functioning, up-to-date and accessible to a lot of people. I also had to ensure the website was able to print pricing lists in PDF format, with different prices and layouts for each customer. This system I had to create from scratch.

Machine Learning and Recommender Systems.