Arthur De Jong
Senior Software Developer at Debian
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolArthur De Jong is a senior software developer with 21 years of experience, currently at DataExpert and long involved as an official Debian Developer since 2003. He builds practical, efficient solutions across backend systems and package maintenance, and maintains notable open-source projects such as python-stdnum—a robust library for parsing and validating standard numbers like ISSN, BSN and ISBN. His career spans security-conscious engineering and operations roles at Fox-IT and West IT Solutions, where he has acted as architect, lead developer and consultant. Based in Delft with an MSc in Computer Science from TU Delft, he combines deep systems experience with an attention to clean, maintainable code and a history of improving validation and code clarity in widely used libraries.
21 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
TU Delft
Stackoverflow
21reputation
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Github Skills (7)
algorithm10
algorithms10
develop10
lib10
data-validation10
python10
sqlite6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
arthurdejong/python-stdnum
Jul 2010 - Dec 2022
A Python library to provide functions to handle, parse and validate standard numbers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 16 reviews, 626 commits in 12 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Arthur primarily worked on the `python-stdnum` repository, a Python library for handling, parsing, and validating standard numbers. Their contributions involved adding new modules for various number types like ISSN, BSN, and ISBN. The changes included implementing functions for validating, formatting, and converting these numbers. The user also refactored existing code, such as migrating from exception handling to more graceful validation approaches and renaming functions for better code clarity.
python
arthurdejong/signxml
Dec 2017 - Dec 2022
Python XML Signature library
Contributions:1 push, 12 branches in 5 years
pythonsignxmlsignaturepython-xml
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