Adriaan De Groot
Senior Software Engineer at CNOSSOS.nl
Arnhem-Nijmegen Region Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarAdriaan De Groot is a Senior Software Engineer with 26 years of experience, blending long-term Free Software contribution and research-minded engineering across protocol verification, requirements engineering, and software quality metrics. Based in the Arnhem–Nijmegen region, he combines hands-on backend and system work—improving cross-platform compatibility in projects like icecream and CMake—with a track record of code modernization and build-system improvements for widely used projects such as KDE/Plasma and Praat. He runs an independent consultancy (CNOSSOS.nl) while contributing at Vimec Applied Vision Technology, showing an ability to balance product delivery with open-source stewardship. His contributions often target subtle platform and compiler quirks, localization and packaging edge cases, and measurable quality improvements rather than headline features. That mix of research focus, practical portability fixes, and a long-standing commitment to Free Software makes him a reliable engineer for projects needing robust, auditable solutions.
26 years of coding experience
English, Dutch, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
c-language10
system-programming10
qt10
multiplatform10
freebsd10
internationalization10
linux10
cmake10
cross-platform10
refactor10
header-files10
compatibility10
cpack10
localization10
build-automation10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
calamares/calamares
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
Distribution-independent installer framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:112 releases, 151 reviews, 6611 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Adriaan appears to be a back-end developer, primarily focusing on internationalization and localization tasks within the Calamares installer framework. The user's commits primarily involve merging translated strings from Transifex and modifying the build process to handle language-specific configurations, specifically the Peruvian Spanish locale. Additionally, the user also addressed build issues related to partition modules.
calamaresinstallerlinuxframework-installerindependent
Kitware/CMake
Feb 2017 - Jul 2022
Mirror of CMake upstream repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:23 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Adriaan contributed significantly to the CMake build system, focusing on enhancing the CPack module for FreeBSD packaging. They added support for the FreeBSD pkg(8) package manager, including generating the necessary metadata and integrating it with CMake. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to compiler warnings, updated the FindwxWidgets module, expanded search paths for FindJNI, and implemented improvements to ctest.
cppcmakeupstream
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