Hi, I'm Sander Philipse, a software engineer based in Amsterdam.
I'm a senior software engineer with extensive experience across the entire development stack, focusing on scaleable, maintainable, high-traffic web apps.
I take ownership of features and products, drive implementation and architectural decisions, and work collaboratively to improve the entire development team's skills. I'm relentlessly focused on user experience, and a big believer in inclusive, accessible design and iterative development.
I think the key to maintainable, scaleable and reliable applications is code that is easy to understand. I'm a big fan of functional, reactive approaches to code, and I think message-based architectures provide a great solution to many problems in modern software development. I believe CICD and test suites following the test pyramid are essential parts of modern software development. I prioritize making my colleagues' lives easier by automating tasks, developing guidelines and implementing a consistent software architecture.
Other accomplishments
- I hold a BA and MA in history.
- I was once attacked in a national Dutch newspaper by two professors emeritus for writing too harshly of Dutch historical slavery and racism.
- Those two historians have since decisively lost the historical argument with their colleagues.
- I was once an excellent online poker player.
- I spent years being paid to write about the NFL by Vox Media while never setting foot on American soil.
About this website
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