Daan De Meyer
Founding Engineer at Amutable
Belgium
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Top SchoolDaan De Meyer is a founding engineer and systems-focused software developer with 11 years of experience building and productionizing low-level Linux infrastructure and networking tools. A Hasselt University computer science master's graduate, he currently contributes upstream to systemd as part of Meta’s Linux Kernel team and maintains systemd/mkosi while authoring the cross-platform reproc C/C++ process library. His work spans kernel-adjacent services, build and test automation (notably contributions to Meson, CMake and doctest), and performance improvements that turned slow CLI workflows into production services at Meta. As a side accomplishment from his thesis he achieved the first end-to-end Facebook page load over QUIC/HTTP3 in Chrome, reflecting a deep interest in networking and protocol-level performance. Based in Belgium, he combines pragmatic DevOps and backend engineering with sustained open-source stewardship across widely used projects.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Hasselt University
Dutch, English, French
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Github Skills (60)
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configuration-management10
linux10
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build-system10
cmake10
language-server-protocol10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
systemd/mkosi
May 2020 - Jan 2023
💽 Build Bespoke OS Images
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 releases, 1653 reviews, 610 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Daan primarily contributed to the project by adding and improving the system's build and deployment infrastructure. The contributions included adding options to launch QEMU virtual machines and setting up a virtual Ethernet link between the host and the container/VM. The user addressed issues related to boot configuration and also introduced enhancements for secure boot and build scripts. In addition, they addressed the setup of the package manager and systemd configuration.
bespokebitbakeverityluksbtrfs
systemd/systemd
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
The systemd System and Service Manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2426 reviews, 178 commits, 2112 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Daan's contributions focused on maintaining and enhancing the systemd project. Their work involved addressing bugs, improving code quality through refactoring, and adding features like creating a mechanism to handle multiple profiles and their configurations. The user was also involved in general improvements and maintenance tasks throughout the codebase, which likely involved C programming.
servicesservice-managervagrantlinuxinit
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