Ariane Van Der Steldt
Staff Software Engineer at Slack
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAriane Van Der Steldt is a Staff Software Engineer based in Ireland with 15 years of experience building secure, large-scale systems and operating critical infrastructure at companies like Slack, Groupon, and Google. She combines deep systems programming expertise—particularly in C/C++ and virtual memory—with practical SRE and incident command experience for traffic ingestion, DDoS protection, and operating Consul at scale. Ariane has a strong BSD and kernel background, having modernized UVM in OpenBSD and authored physical and virtual memory allocators, and she continues to publish lock-free and network libraries as open-source work on GitHub. Comfortable across databases and backend stacks (PostgreSQL, Java, Python), she moves projects from prototype to production rapidly and reliably. Colleagues describe her as friendly, pragmatic, and an effective automation and migration lead who thrives in high-pressure incidents. Her mix of low-level systems craftsmanship and hands-on operational leadership makes her particularly effective at hard reliability and security problems that span kernel to cloud.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
church organ, church organ at Stichting Muziekschool Alblasserwaard en Vijfheerenlandenno degree information technology, no degree information technology at Eindhoven University of TechnologyVWO Dutch English German Math A and B Physics Chemistry Biology, VWO Dutch English German Math A and B Physics Chemistry Biology at Merewade College
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (67)
proxy10
accelerator10
consul10
extensible10
service-discovery10
vault10
golang10
high-performance10
kubernetes10
api-gateway10
data-center9
javascript9
monitoring9
service-mesh9
angular9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nahratzah/Jser_plus_plus
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
WIP: Serialize && deserialize java serialized objects in C++.
Contributions:4 PRs, 129 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
deserializationwipserializationserializec-sharp
nahratzah/hoard_cache
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:81 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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