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Hi, I'm Siam — building reliable software.

Crafting high quality applications for both in-house and customer use — I work until the result is right, not just done.

Siam Smeets

6+

Years experience

5

Companies

About

Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience across in-house and customer-facing applications, from frontend interfaces to backend systems and the DevOps that ties it together. Based in Enschede, the Netherlands.

Frontend

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • React

Backend

  • DataFlex
  • C#
  • Java

DevOps

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Bitbucket
  • Windows
  • macOS

Project Management

  • Jira
  • Scrum
  • Kanban

Languages

  • English — Native / Bilingual
  • Dutch — Native / Bilingual
  • German — Basic
  • Thai — Conversational

4

Languages spoken

Enschede, The Netherlands

Based in

Experience

Where I've worked

  1. Software Engineer

    07/2022 — Present

    Data Access Europe B.V.

    Hengelo (OV), The Netherlands

    • –Engineered and supported in-house software solutions.
    • –Managed a team in development of customer-facing software.
    • –Created training material for our customers.
    • –Guided and trained colleagues in better usage of DevOps systems.
    • DataFlex
    • JavaScript
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • GitLab
    • Jira
    • MSSQL
  2. Software Engineer Trainee

    01/2022 — 08/2022

    Sqills

    Enschede, The Netherlands

    • –Guided in how the in-house software works, and helped develop and maintain it for better efficiency.
    • Java
    • React
    • Kotlin
    • Bitbucket
    • Jira
  3. Software Developer

    08/2019 — 12/2021

    Data Access Europe B.V.

    Hengelo (OV), The Netherlands

    • –Engineered and supported in-house software solutions.
    • –Created and updated libraries.
    • –Developed and maintained customer-facing software.
    • DataFlex
    • JavaScript
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • GitLab
    • Jira
    • MSSQL
  4. Software Engineer (Intern)

    01/2019 — 07/2019

    Twensoc

    Enschede, The Netherlands

    • –Developed and maintained customer software during a Software Engineer internship.
    • Kotlin
    • Angular
    • Bitbucket
    • Jira
    • PostgreSQL
  5. Software Engineer (Intern)

    09/2017 — 01/2018

    NovaSystems

    Enschede, The Netherlands

    • –Developed and enhanced features for the internal support desk application during a software engineering internship.
    • PHP
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • PostgreSQL

Personal Projects

What I build outside of work

  • Homelab & Self-Hosted Infrastructure

    A self-managed home server running dozens of containerized services — a personal sandbox for infrastructure, networking, and automation work outside the day job.

    • –Containerized every service with Docker Compose, behind a reverse proxy with automatic TLS.
    • –Set up centralized identity so services share a single sign-on instead of separate logins.
    • –Built monitoring and alerting to catch problems before they become outages.
    • –Automated recurring tasks and integrations end-to-end, from backups to custom workflow automation.
    • Docker
    • Reverse Proxy & TLS
    • Monitoring
    • Automation
    • Networking

Let's build something reliable together.

Have a role in mind or just want to say hi? My inbox is always open.