Arjen Smits
Senior Application Developer
's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolArjen Smits is a Senior Application Developer with 12 years of hands-on .NET experience, currently building solutions at Spie Building Solutions from his base in 's-Hertogenbosch. He has a strong track record in enterprise application development across multiple Dutch firms, delivering custom software and product management tooling since 2007. As a distributed programming enthusiast, he contributes to the Akka.NET project, focusing on bug fixes, stability improvements and test coverage for the canonical actor-model framework on .NET. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors and reliable back-end fixes that improve runtime behavior and diagnostics. His background in computer software engineering and long tenure on both consultancy and product teams give him a practical blend of architectural insight and delivery-focused craftsmanship.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Avans Hogeschool Den Bosch
Dutch, English
Github Skills (11)
net10
asp-net10
debug10
dotnet10
akka10
csharp10
actor-model10
dotnet-core10
concurrency9
testing9
distributed-programming8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
akkadotnet/akka.net
Apr 2015 - Aug 2021
Canonical actor model implementation for .NET with local + distributed actors in C# and F#.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 115 commits, 199 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Arjen primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the Akka.NET framework. Their contributions involved addressing specific issues, such as fixing a bug related to `ActorTaskScheduler.cs`, improving the `DIActorProducer` to return the correct actor type, and implementing fixes to the stack trace handling in `ActorCell.FaultHandling.cs`. Additionally, the user refactored the codebase by removing several logger plugins. Furthermore, the user contributed new test cases to improve overall stability and reliability.
dotnetconcurrencydistributed-actorsdistributed-programmingc-sharp
Danthar/AkkaBootcamp
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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