Chris Van Der Loo
Co-Founder, CTO at Bluefin
Littleton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChris Van Der Loo is a founder and hands-on CTO with 12 years of engineering experience and advanced CS degrees from Rensselaer, who has built a company while staying deeply involved in development. He brings a rare blend of academic ML/RL expertise and practical systems engineering, having deployed algorithms to edge devices like NVIDIA Jetsons and re-architected multi-service decision-support tools at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. His background includes working in highly regulated domains—defense and clinical-like testbeds—where he delivered Docker-orchestrated services, real-time sensor integrations, and HPC-backed MDP analyses. An active full‑stack contributor, he has also improved developer tooling in the Neovim ecosystem by integrating task and terminal plugins to streamline workflows. Based in Littleton, MA, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a track record of turning research prototypes into operational, production-grade systems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Marple-Newtown High SchoolMilford High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (7)
neovim10
lua10
plug10
neovim-plugin10
plugin10
task-management9
typescript6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
stevearc/overseer.nvim
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
A task runner and job management plugin for Neovim
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily focused on integrating the `overseer.nvim` plugin with the `toggleterm.nvim` plugin, enabling the execution of tasks within a terminal. The user implemented a strategy to manage tasks using the ToggleTerm plugin. Their work involved configuring options, handling terminal events (stdout, exit), and ensuring proper integration. This includes modifying the plugin to add functionality and fixing the code.
luajob-managementtask-runnerjobneovim
chrisvander/zustand-computed
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
A Zustand middleware to create computed states.
Contributions:12 releases, 2 reviews, 53 commits in 3 months
middlewarezustandcomputed
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