Bas Van Der Vlies
HPC Unix Linux Principal System Engineer at SURF
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBas Van Der Vlies is an HPC Unix/Linux Principal System Engineer with over 13 years of focused experience and a long tenure at SURF supporting top-tier research computing — including systems ranked among the world’s fastest. He specializes in installation, maintenance and performance tuning of large-scale UNIX clusters for academic and industry collaborations, bridging infrastructure, storage, visualization and cloud services. An active contributor to open source configuration management, Bas has improved CFEngine's core parser with robust grammar validation and enhanced error reporting, reflecting deep expertise in parsing and reliable system automation. His background in flight simulation systems and decades working with UNIX environments give him a pragmatic, systems-first approach to solving complex operational challenges.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor, Computer Science and Chemical Engineering, bachelor, Computer Science and Chemical Engineering at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesZeewijk school Beverwijk
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (8)
c1710
configuration-management10
error-handling10
parser10
c1110
parsing10
parse10
lexical-analysis9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cfengine/core
Apr 2013 - May 2019
CFEngine Community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 126 commits, 18 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Bas primarily contributed to the development and improvement of the CFEngine core parser. Their work focused on adding debugging statements, enhancing error reporting, and implementing checks for various syntax elements within the CFEngine language. These changes involved modifying the parser's grammar to validate bundle, body, promise, and argument structures, as well as adding checks to ensure the correct structure of code blocks. The contributions reflect a strong understanding of parsing, grammar, and error handling in a configuration management domain.
cfengineconfiguration-managementcautomationinfrastructure-as-code
basvandervlies/cf_surfsara_lib
Sep 2018 - Sep 2022
SURFsara CFEngine lib for mustache/json and def.json
Contributions:254 commits, 7 PRs, 123 pushes in 4 years 1 month
cfengine
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