Dedecker Hans
Senior Software Development Engineer at Nokia
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolDedecker Hans is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 12+ years focused on networking and embedded systems, currently based in Ghent and working at Nokia. He has deep hands-on experience with IP stack components—DHCP/DHCPv6, DNS, tunneling (GRE, DS‑Lite, IPIP, VXLAN) and routing—gained through long-term roles at Technicolor and prolific contributions to the OpenWrt ecosystem. His open-source work on widely used projects like OpenWrt/LEDE shows practical expertise in patching low-level scripts, fixing build issues, and improving package stability across constrained devices. At Technicolor he architected IP networking solutions for DSL modem platforms, driving IPv6 and complex triple-play DHCP scenarios. Known for bridging systems engineering and backend development, he combines protocol-level insight with DevOps-oriented package and build maintenance. Notably, his contributions often touch subtle real-world interoperability and compile-time fixes that keep large embedded networks running reliably.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', Gent
Github Skills (39)
administrator10
network-configuration10
tunnel10
admin10
package-management10
scripting10
net10
ip10
firewall10
c-programming10
c1110
linux-kernel10
networking10
c1710
system10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openwrt/openwrt
Jun 2016 - Oct 2022
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 237 PRs, 409 comments in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dedecker contributed to the OpenWRT project by implementing and enhancing network-related functionalities. They focused on DHCP and DNS configuration, implementing new features and addressing issues within existing scripts. The contributions involved modifying and adding new options for DHCP clients, patching shell scripts related to network configuration, and providing fixes and improvements for several network protocols.
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lede-project/source
Jun 2016 - Jan 2021
Mirror of https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git Please send your PRs against this tree. They will be merged via staging trees and appear in this tree once the staging trees get merged back into source.git
Role in this project:Back-end & Systems Engineer
Back-end & Systems EngineerContributions:67 PRs, 137 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dedecker contributed to network configuration and system-level utilities, focusing on enhancing and modifying the OpenWrt source code for networking features. Their commits involved adding, modifying, and fixing code related to DHCP, DNS, IPv6, and various tunneling protocols (e.g., GRE, VXLAN, IPIP). They also worked on improving the build process, and adding support for a kernel module. The user's work indicates a strong understanding of network infrastructure, system configuration, and low-level network protocols.
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