Breus Blaauwendraad
MSc. Computing Science - Spec. Cyber Security
About me
At age 14 I started developing websites, and I’ve never lost my love for programming since. Two years later, I officially registered my first web development company with a friend of mine: he did design and lay-out, while I wrote the code and communicated with clients.
After graduating high school, I went to study Business & IT, since both the fields of computer science and business administration appeal to me. During this study, I found myself enjoying the computer science courses much more. Consequently, I did a minor in Sweden to test whether a master in Computer Science would suit me, which it did. Since a course on Cryptology sparked my enthusiasm in particular, I went with a master in Cyber Security.
My passion still lies in software development, especially when it involves security topics. I furthermore enjoy researching methods and tools to increase workflow efficiency, both for the bigger picture (e.g. DevOps) or smaller things (e.g. configuring my development environment). In my spare time I enjoy sports, socializing, and reading about (socio)technology, politics, and news.
Honors
Best paper award in the track Dependable Network(ed) Systems
For the paper (bachelor thesis): “The Performance Impact of Elliptic Curve Cryptography on DNSSEC for Constrained Hardware Architectures”
At the 27th Twente Student Conference on IT
Skills & Interests
Java, Go, C, Kotlin (Postgres)SQL, Gradle, Cryptography, Unit/Integration testing
Contact
Phone and e-mail address on request via LinkedIn
Education
2017 - 2019
Radboud University Nijmegen
MSc. Computing Science, spec. Cyber Security
TRU\e Security Master of Science. Collaboration program of the Digital Security group of Radboud University & Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information.
2017 - 2019
Eindhoven University of Technology
MSc. Computing Science, spec. Cyber Security
TRU\e Security Master of Science. Collaboration program of the Digital Security group of Radboud University & Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information.
2016 - 2017
Chalmers University of Technology (SE)
Exchange / Minor, Computer Science
Courses: “Concurrent Programming”, “Algorithm Design”, “Cryptography”, “Testing, Debugging and Verification”.
2014 - 2017
University of Twente
BSc. Business & Information Technology
Bachelor of Science. Curriculum consisting half of Technical Computer Science & half of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Work experience
2021 - now
Adyen
Platform scalability
Developing and maintaining internal (Java) core frameworks. Improved robustness and stability of the frameworks by adding tests, bug fixes and refactoring poor performing parts. Increased user experience by refactoring legacy parts, adding documentation and providing reference code.
2020 - 2021
Adyen
Operational scalability
Building and maintaining scalable REST/RPC services. Vastly increased integration and unit test coverage on services owned by the team by adding new test suites and stabilizing the existing ones.
2019 - 2019
Suite Seven
Innovation advisor
Managing the implementation of a custom built knowledge base web application and advising on the introduction of DevOps tools.
2019 - 2019
Accenture
Graduate research intern
Designing a post-quantum cryptographic digital signature scheme for multi-chain blockchain systems. Implemented the scheme in Go.
2018 - 2019
Suite Seven
Backend developer
Programming back end features for custom WordPress themes in PHP. Advising on GDPR implementations for customers' web applications.
2018 - 2019
SURFnet
Research intern
Conducting research on VPN obfuscation techniques, designing a UDP-to-TCP wrapper and implementing it in Go.
2017 - 2018
Skywire IT
Owner / Full-stack web developer
Programming custom-built websites using LAMP stack.
2013 - 2017
BG Creations v.o.f.
Co-owner / Full-stack web developer
Programming custom-built websites in HTML/CSS/PHP.