Casper Meijn
Embedded Rust Developer at Ministerie van Defensie
Noord-Scharwoude, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolCasper Meijn is an Embedded Rust developer with 12 years of experience building mission-critical systems for defense and industrial clients. He combines backend and embedded expertise to control hardware reliably, having worked on naval Combat Management Systems and a time/navigation retranmission cabinet for Royal Netherlands Navy submarines. Casper contributes to open-source embedded projects like Apache Mynewt—adding BSPs and Rust apps for PineTime—while also improving backend APIs (e.g., converting Wallabag docs to OpenAPI 3). He enjoys crafting software designs that make products robust and testable, and has a track record of improving build systems and cloud migrations for stable deployments. Based in Noord-Scharwoude, he brings an electrical engineering background to software problems, often bridging low-level driver work with user-facing features. Colleagues value his pragmatic blend of hardware control, safety-minded testing, and the knack for turning complex requirements into maintainable code.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and electronic engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and electronic engineering at Inholland University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (32)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
apache/mynewt-core
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
An OS to build, deploy and securely manage billions of devices
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 29 commits, 15 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Casper primarily contributed to the Apache Mynewt OS for embedded devices, with a focus on board support packages (BSPs) for the PineTime smartwatch. Their work included adding BSP boilerplate, pin definitions, and integrating drivers for components like the SGM4056 charger and battery voltage measurement. Additionally, the user added Rust-based applications demonstrating software development in that language within the Mynewt environment. The user also documented BSP and driver implementations.
mynewtsecurely
wallabag/wallabag
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 2 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Casper primarily contributed to updating the API documentation within the Wallabag project. They converted the API documentation from NelmioApiDocBundle annotations to OpenApi 3 specifications, involving changes to controller files and annotations to improve API documentation clarity and maintainability. Furthermore, the user fixed API configuration issues related to user registration, ensuring the correct behavior of the registration endpoint. These changes focused on API functionality and documentation within the Symfony framework, showcasing their expertise in backend development for this project.
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