Benoist Claassen
News Anchor at altrady
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBenoist Claassen is a seasoned web-focused software engineer and entrepreneur with 17 years of experience building production web apps, products and developer tools from The Hague. He has led technical teams and contributed to open-source security and protocol libraries—authoring XML Signature/Encryption and a SAML library in Ruby—and has contributed to the Crystal language’s HTTP client to improve timeouts, OpenSSL support and error handling. Since founding Altrady and Web2000 he combines hands-on backend work (Ruby/Rails, Crystal, PostgreSQL) with cloud and DevOps practices (AWS, Docker), and has a track record of turning personal tooling needs into successful products. His background in Human Centered Multimedia and early start building websites at 12 give him a pragmatic, user-focused approach to engineering and product design.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
oaseMSc Human Centered Multimedia, MSc Human Centered Multimedia at University of AmsterdamBSc Information Technology, BSc Information Technology at Delft University of Technology
English, Dutch
Github Skills (7)
http-client10
crystal-lang10
openssl10
testing9
compiler-compiler8
programming-language8
compiler8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
crystal-lang/crystal
Sep 2015 - Nov 2017
The Crystal Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 19 PRs, 139 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Benoist contributed to the HTTP client implementation within the Crystal programming language repository. Their work focused on enhancing the client's functionality by adding connect and read timeouts, improving error handling related to network operations. They also added functionality for OpenSSL ciphers, digests and PKCS5 functionalities. The commits involve modifications to the HTTP server class and related specifications for testing, further contributing to the overall robustness of the HTTP library.
esoteric-languagecrystallanguage-designcompilerprogramming-language
benoist/encoding-crystal
Feb 2016 - Oct 2018
A library for integer encoding
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 2 years 7 months
integerinteger-encodingencoding
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