Brecht Sanders
IT Manager at Edustria
Diksmuide, West Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolBrecht Sanders is an experienced IT manager and hands-on ICT engineer with over a decade of experience managing mixed Windows/Linux environments, IT lifecycles, and service desks for manufacturing and enterprise clients. He combines deep open-source expertise—particularly Debian and Asterisk-based IP telephony—with low-level C/C++ development, evidenced by contributions to projects like xlsxio and compatibility fixes for Google's protobuf on Windows. As founder of Edustria he delivers on-premise, cross-platform solutions and consultancy, bridging IT and OT in complex operational settings. Based in West Flanders, Belgium, he is equally comfortable leading teams and diving into code or system internals, often favouring pragmatic, interoperable designs.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Information Technology Graduaat Toegepaste Informatica, Applied Information Technology Graduaat Toegepaste Informatica at HOGENTGhent UniversitySecondary school Latin + Sciences, Secondary school Latin + Sciences at Klein Seminarie RoeselarePrimary School, Primary School at Keiem
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Github Skills (29)
mingw-w6410
c-language10
marshalling10
protocol-buffers10
windows10
build-system10
c1110
c1710
exp10
xml10
cprogramming-language10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
gcc9
serialization9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
brechtsanders/xlsxio
Mar 2016 - Dec 2022
XLSX I/O - C library for reading and writing .xlsx files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 releases, 8 reviews, 342 commits in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Brecht appears to be involved in the development of the `xlsxio` library, which provides functionality for reading and writing .xlsx files. The contributions focused on modifying the `xlsxio_read.c` file, which includes implementing XML processing with Expat, as well as adding and modifying functionality. Additionally, the user worked on the header files and test files, adding flags for the data processing.
xlsxopenxmlc-libraryxlsx-filesexcel
protocolbuffers/protobuf
Nov 2020 - May 2023
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 PRs, 5 comments, 4 issues in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brecht primarily contributed to fixing build issues and ensuring compatibility with the MinGW-w64 compiler on Windows, specifically focusing on the protobuf library. Their contributions involved modifying header files to address issues related to the `__has_attribute` and `__attribute__((weak))` directives and dealing with little-endian assumptions on Windows. The user also resolved a missing type definition, `int32_t`, for GCC 13 builds on Windows.
protocol-buffersrpcgoogle-protocol-buffersinterchange-formatmarshalling
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