Charles Vandevoorde
Senior Software Engineer at Swift
Rixensart, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolCharles Vandevoorde is a Senior Software Engineer from Belgium with 10 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, cloud-native computing, and DevOps. He currently contributes to SWIFT’s Alliance Cloud, bringing deep back-end expertise in C++ and Java, RPC interoperability, and modernizing CI/CD and build systems. His master's thesis produced a practical, workload-adaptive distributed algorithm for low-latency consistency, reflecting a strong grounding in theoretical distributed algorithms applied to real systems. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed bugs and added features to the high-profile Servo browser engine, improving Unicode handling, CLI preferences, and XHR behavior with accompanying unit tests. Comfortable across on-prem and cloud environments, he also authors Ansible playbooks and packaging/updating workflows to streamline developer and tester experiences. Based in Rixensart, he pairs rigorous academic training with pragmatic engineering and a steady appetite for side projects and open-source collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
CESS, Advanced mathematics, advanced sciences, dutch and english, CESS, Advanced mathematics, advanced sciences, dutch and english at Collège Saint-Etienne des HayeffesBachelor's degree, Computer and electrical science, 81.3% (High Honors), Bachelor's degree, Computer and electrical science, 81.3% (High Honors) at ECAM Brussels
English, French
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Github Skills (10)
webbrowser10
rust10
browser10
webpages10
servo10
webengine10
web-content10
html9
unit-testing9
css9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
servo/servo
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 44 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to improving the Servo web engine by fixing bugs and implementing new features. They focused on allowing numerical values in CLI preferences and correcting unicode handling for text input. Furthermore, the user worked on handling alternate stylesheets and implementing XHR progress event changes, which involved modifications to various core components like `HTMLLinkElement` and `XMLHttpRequest`. This included adding unit tests and modifying existing test files.
browserrustjavascriptbrowser-engineservo
charlesvdv/cirrus
Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
Modern personal cloud :wrench: WIP :wrench:
Contributions:32 PRs, 76 pushes, 38 branches in 3 years 5 months
wiplinuxpersonal-cloudwrench
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