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Arthur Meijer

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Staff Backend Engineer at Uber · Payments infrastructure · gRPC, PCI DSS

Works at
Uber
Location
Brussels, Belgium · CET (UTC+1)
Experience
9+ years experience
Education
University of Amsterdam
Languages
English, Dutch, French

Overview

9 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Uber, where I work on the payments platform team. Led the migration of 59 services to gRPC. Before that: Personio and Mercedes-Benz. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

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Skills
gRPCJavaKafkadistributed systemsPCI DSSGoidempotency

Experience

  1. Staff Backend Engineer
    Aug 2024 - Present
    Uber · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Brussels, Belgium
    • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 27 a week to 3.
    • Moved 75% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Grew the payments platform team from 5 to 21 engineers.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Nov 2020 - Aug 2024
    Personio · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Brussels, Belgium
    • Wrote the gRPC service that now handles 40 million requests a day.
    • Took payment success rates from 91.5% to 98.4%.
  3. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
    Mercedes-Benz · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Brussels, Belgium
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 672ms to 170ms.
    • Wrote the gRPC service that now handles 18 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. University of Amsterdam
    BSc, Electrical Engineering
    2013 - 2016

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