Dennis Potman
Software Architect at ZettaScale Technology
Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Potman is a Software Architect with seven years of focused experience in backend and security engineering, currently shaping systems at ZettaScale Technology from Enschede. He has a strong track record in building reliable, secure distributed systems—evidenced by contributions to the Eclipse Cyclone DDS project where he improved DDS security tests, fixed subtle initialization bugs, and refactored dynamic library loading. Prior roles at ADLINK and long tenure across Dutch enterprises reflect deep practical experience delivering production-quality software across embedded, enterprise, and startup contexts. Trained at the University of Twente (MSc), he pairs architectural thinking with hands-on problem solving and a knack for reducing timing and stability issues that go unnoticed until they break systems. Colleagues rely on him for steady, security-minded engineering when reliability matters most.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Master of Science (MSc) at University of Twente
English, Dutch
Github Skills (12)
c1710
it-security10
c1110
rtp10
security10
testing9
computer-engineering9
error-handling8
windows7
linux7
dynamic-linking6
build-system6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-cyclonedds/cyclonedds
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Eclipse Cyclone DDS project
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:394 reviews, 541 commits, 182 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dennis's contributions focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the Eclipse Cyclone DDS project, particularly within the area of data distribution service (DDS) security. They implemented improvements to the access control tests to reduce timing issues and also fixed an uninitialized variable issue related to security configurations. Further contributions involved refactoring dynamic library loading, updating locators tests, and addressing various coverity issues across security tests, demonstrating a strong focus on stability and reliability.
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dpotman/cyclonedds
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Eclipse Cyclone DDS project
Contributions:769 commits, 1 PR, 1236 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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