Curriculum Vitae

About me

My name is Bram van Elderen, I'm from the Hague, I am a software engineer by profession and also a game developer by hobby.

I have always had a big interest in anything related to computers from a young age, mainly due to me also being an avid gamer early on. Due to this i started programming from a young age, starting on writing some simple programs on a TI-84 calculator to assist me during my school days.

Later i followed the "Informatica" (or Computer Science in english) course at the Hague University, at which point I could actually write some proper code and build cool software. 

But because i always had an passion for game development before finishing the study i took a gap year to develop my own games, on my own but also gathering other like minded people and working together on games in a team.

After the gap year i finished the study at the Hague University by doing an intership for Fenêtre, that is where i stayed working as developer ever since.

Skills

Over the years I’ve acquired a wide variety of different skills in different areas. Below I've listed the skills i'm most comfortable with and use frequently.

Technical Skills

  • C#
  • .NET 6, .NET MVC, Entity Framework Core
  • SQL - MSSQL & PostgreSQL
  • GIT
  • Microsoft Azure
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • VueJS - Using Typescript and Javascript
  • Unity

Soft skills

  • Mentoring junior developers
  • Scrum master
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Model View Controller architectures
  • Single Page Application architectures

Education

The Hague University

Computer science - 2011 / 2016 - 2018

Work experience

Alphacomm Energy Solutions

February 2014 / July 2014 - Internship

In this internship i was responsible for building a website showing customers their energy usage.

July 2014 / March 2016 - Student developer

This job was a continuation of the product i helped develop in the previous internship.

Game development

September 2016 / August 2017 - Independend development

Here i worked on developing my own games, alone and also creating/leading teams on developing a games using the Unity game engine.

Fenêtre online solutions

August 2017 / November 2017 - Student developer

I was mainly helping fixing bugs in existing projects.

November 2017 / March 2018 - Internship

In the intership i converted an existing .NET 4.8 framework to .NET Core and instead of it being a multipage application it now became a single page application.

March 2018 / January 2020 - Software developer

In this period i was responsible for a few things:

  • Continuation building the new framework based on .NET Core
  • Help build features in business applications for insurance companies

January 2020 / December 2020 - Scrum master / Lead developer

During this period i took over as Scrum master and lead developer for the internal framework project. My tasks consisted of:

  • Discussing features with the product owner and writing these down in detail with the code architecture in mind
  • Prioritise and plan the features with the product owner
  • Organizing weekly scrum meetings
  • Mentoring developers and reviewing their work

December 2020 / Now - Software Developer

During this period i designed and developed an business oriented password manager application from the ground up. I started this project in my free time and Fenêtre offered to develop this application for them instead. My tasks for this included everything i've learned up until this point:

  • Design all the features that are in the application before hand
  • Creating the architecture and data model for the project from scratch
  • Plan in all the features into epics then into sprints
  • Build both the back-end API and front-end application using .NET 6 & Blazor
  • Creating the CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure

Worth Internet Systems

 (Through Fenêtre)

July 2018 / October 2019 - Software developer

Here i was responsible for creating the back-end of the Eurojackpot and Lucky Day websites and setting up the infrastructure on Azure.

April 2020 / Januari 2021 - Software developer

Here i was working building the Krasloten back-end and infrastructure and assisting development for Eurojackpot and Lucky Day.