Bob Van Der Linden

North Brabant, Netherlands

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Bob Van Der Linden is an experienced IT leader and software professional with 11 years of experience who excels at bridging people, processes and technology to deliver customer-focused solutions. Grounded in electrical and engineering training and a lifelong curiosity that began with a Tandy TRS-80, he combines hands-on development skills with pragmatic management, coaching IT consultants and driving commercial success. His open-source contributions span both front-end UX improvements (Calamares installer logs and toggles) and back-end tooling (devenv Nix-based developer environments, Java/Maven/Gradle support and MySQL module enhancements), showing a focus on improving developer experience. Colleagues value his self-starting, communicative and decisive style as well as his ability to translate challenges across organizational levels into practical outcomes. He is comfortable in Agile/Scrum settings and prefers roles at the intersection of employees, software and customers where measurable improvements matter. A detail that often surprises: he pairs strategic change management with low-level developer tooling contributions, so he can both negotiate stakeholder priorities and write the modules that make deployments reproducible.

11 years of coding experience

Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Christelijke MTS Scutos, UTRECHT

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Algemene Operationele Technologie (AOT), Cum Laude, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Algemene Operationele Technologie (AOT), Cum Laude at Hogeschool van Utrecht

MAVO-D, MAVO-D at MAVO/LEAO Lunetten, UTRECHT

German, Dutch, English

Github Skills (15)

javas10

c-language10

installer10

cprogramming-language10

nix10

developer-tools10

installers10

java10

mysql9

gradlew9

ui-design9

graphical-user-interface9

gradle9

maven9

user-interface9

Programming languages (30)

C#CCMakeElmGoMustacheHTMLTypeScript

Github contributions (5)

cachix/devenv

Nov 2022 - Mar 2023

Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:35 reviews, 51 commits, 47 PRs in 3 months

Contributions summary:Bob primarily contributed to the development environment configuration and Java language support within the devenv project. They added features like target directory support, updated help messages, and implemented Java-specific modules including Maven and Gradle options. They also focused on adding features to the mysql module, improving options, and refactoring, demonstrating their knowledge of Nix and configuration management. Their work shows a focus on improving developer tooling.

gitpodconfigurationdeclarativedeveloper-toolsreproducible

calamares/calamares

Mar 2022 - Mar 2022

Distribution-independent installer framework

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 4 days

Contributions summary:Bob focused on enhancing the user interface of the installer framework by adding a log widget. They implemented a tab widget to display both a slideshow and the application logs. The user integrated a log widget, fetching and displaying log data in real-time, improving the user's ability to monitor the installation progress. Additionally, they incorporated a toggle button to switch between the slideshow and the log view.

calamaresinstallerlinuxframework-installerindependent

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