Arnoud Thörig
Linux DevOps Engineer at Radboud University
Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolArnoud Thörig is a Linux DevOps Engineer with 8 years of focused experience and over two decades in systems and network roles, currently building infrastructure at Radboud University after senior DevOps and architecture stints at Yoast. He brings deep expertise in storage, monitoring, backup solutions, VMware and Windows environments, and a proven track record leading teams and stabilizing telecom-grade systems. Comfortable both hands-on and in leadership, he has driven deployment safety and release automation—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Yoast WordPress SEO project that improved release tagging and changelog workflows. His mathematics degree underpins a methodical, analytical approach to reliability and operational tooling, and he blends academic and open-source sensibilities to solve complex production problems pragmatically.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MAVO, MAVO at De Meerdreef, WijchenVWO, VWO at Dukenburg College NijmegenBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Radboud University Nijmegen
Github Skills (11)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
apim10
g10
php10
api10
gruntjs10
seo9
automations8
automation8
automation-testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Yoast/wordpress-seo
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Yoast SEO for WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 174 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Arnoud's commits primarily focused on improving the Yoast SEO plugin's functionality by implementing code to interact with the WordPress API. They developed new tasks and modified existing ones to ensure the "Stable tag" in the `readme.txt` file is synchronized with the latest version from wordpress.org, and also added checks to prevent deployment if the tag is incorrect. The user also refactored code to streamline the changelog input process by merging the changelog with code from a secondary changelog file.
breadcrumbsschema-orgwordpressphpxml-sitemap
Yoast/plugin-grunt-tasks
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Several tasks requires for our plugins
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 14 PRs in 1 year 10 months
pluginrequires
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