Andrie De Vries
Director Of Product Strategy
Elmbridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAndrie De Vries is a product innovation leader with two decades of experience driving product strategy and growth in open source data science, machine learning and AI. As Director of Product Strategy at Posit he helped scale revenue from $20M to $100M, leading strategic change programs across product, packaging, pricing and technical sales enablement. He blends hands-on engineering roots—contributing backend and full‑stack fixes to prominent R projects like RStudio, learnr and pkgdown—with senior product leadership, ensuring developer experience and enterprise deployment are aligned. Based in Elmbridge, UK, he excels at turning complex technical requirements into practical commercial offerings and has a knack for improving data export and reproducibility workflows that quietly benefit large user communities.
15 years of coding experience
English, Afrikaans, French, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (96)
package-management10
data-manipulation10
loops10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
r-lib/pkgdown
Jan 2015 - Aug 2019
Generate static html documentation for an R package
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer (with a focus on R package documentation)
Full-stack Developer (with a focus on R package documentation)Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrie made several contributions to the `pkgdown` R package documentation tool. They primarily focused on enhancing the flexibility of site path configuration, allowing users to specify custom paths. They also addressed documentation issues, like updating arguments to reflect code changes and removing unnecessary title lines. Their work included modifications to core package files, demonstrating an understanding of the package's internal structure and functionality for generating documentation.
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rstudio/rstudio
Apr 2017 - Jul 2022
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrie primarily contributed to the backend logic of the RStudio IDE, specifically addressing a bug related to how the IDE handles libraries with zero or few packages. They focused on improving the reliability of package loading and versioning within the RStudio environment. This involved code modifications to the `SessionPackages.R` file and updates to the handling of R packages. They also addressed the default handling of stringsAsFactors.
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