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Hi, I'm Bram.

I'm a New York based programmer, music lover & infrastructure engineer.

Some of my programming interests are algorithms, distributed systems and security.

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Work Experience Education

Work Experience & Education

Staff Engineer

Spotify

I work in the Compute & Networking product area, on things like:

  • IPv6 adoption
  • Infrastructure reliability & failure domains
  • Machine Learning infrastructure
  • Cost reduction initiatives

Jan 2022 - Now

Senior Engineer

Spotify

I work on core infrastructure at Spotify, including:

  • DNS, both internal and external
  • Kubernetes cluster administration
  • Infrastructure automation with Puppet and Terraform
  • Incident management

Feb 2019 - Jan 2022

Data Infrastructure Engineer

Spotify

I built and maintained tools to help Spotify be a data-driven company. Two of the main projects I was involved in are:

  • migrating from on-premise to Google Cloud Platform
  • design and implementation of infrastructure that supports GDPR

Oct 2016 - Feb 2019

MSc. Data Intensive Computing

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Master thesis graded A

Aug 2015 - Aug 2016

Intern

SICS Swedish ICT

I worked on HopsFS, a distributed filesystem based on the Apache Hadoop distributed file system. My area of responsibility was support for heterogeneous storage: making the file system aware of differences in hardware (e.g. harddisks vs. flash storage) and optimizing distribution of files to maximize utilization of the hardware.

Nov 2015 - June 2016

MSc. Distributed Systems & Services

Technische Universität Berlin

My major, Distributed Systems and Services, focuses on a broad range of applications like electronic commerce, mobile services, online social networks, peer-to-peer systems and Web services.

Oct 2014 - Oct 2015

Backend developer

Gambify GmbH

Reimplementing the backend of the social betting platform Gambify, with a focus on scalability. This meant redesigning and rewriting the entire backend as a team of 3 engineers.

Feb 2015 - July 2015

BSc. Computer Science

University of Twente

  • Best paper award for bachelor thesis
  • Extra curricular track: Excellence Stream Mathematics
  • Minor in "Social and Technological Philosophy"
  • Bachelor thesis "Simple and Efficient Searchable Symmetric Encryption with Application", graded 9/10
Aug 2011 - Aug 2014