Bas Dirks
Principal Engineer at Purple Digital Storytelling
North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBas Dirks is a Principal Engineer based in North Holland with 15 years of experience leading development teams and shipping pragmatic web applications. He progressed from hands-on development and team leadership at OrangeLine to senior and executive engineering roles at Betty Blocks, co-founded a startup, and now drives architecture and delivery at Purple Digital Storytelling. Known for blending technical depth with leadership, he mentors teams while remaining a contributor to open-source projects—he has made maintenance and documentation improvements to the notable Haskell lens library. Bas brings a practical, maintenance-minded approach to complex codebases and a track record of turning product needs into reliable engineering outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MediaCollege Amsterdam
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Github Skills (10)
lenses10
haskell10
maintenance9
border6
css6
nodejs6
javascript6
jquery6
parsing6
angularjs6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ekmett/lens
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
Lenses, Folds, and Traversals - Join us on web.libera.chat #haskell-lens
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:66 commits in 25 days
Contributions summary:Bas primarily amended the author information in the codebase. These changes were made across multiple files, including those related to internal lens implementations and API definitions. The modifications suggest a focus on maintenance and minor improvements to existing code, likely involving bug fixes and improving the codebase documentation.
foldshaskellchatlensesjoin
basdirks/dragonfly
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:106 commits, 93 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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