Dick Van Den Brink
Lead Software Engineer at Thinkwise
Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDick Van Den Brink is a Lead Software Engineer based in Gelderland, Netherlands, with 14 years of experience building and refining developer-facing and enterprise software. He progressed from product-focused front-end work on a model-driven GUI to senior and lead engineering roles, combining hands-on coding with team and product-level ownership at Thinkwise. An active open-source contributor, he has improved build tooling for Apache Cordova, enhanced UI and settings in the ILSpy .NET decompiler, and contributed bug fixes and new rules to TypeScript/TSLint—showing comfort across mobile, compiler, and tooling domains. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors and quality improvements that reduce complexity and prevent recurring issues, such as eliminating duplicate build steps and hard-to-test scope bugs. He holds Computer Science studies from Universiteit Twente and brings a practical, cross-stack mindset that balances developer ergonomics with production reliability.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
JFCHogeschool van Arnhem en NijmegenComputer Science, Computer Science at Universiteit Twente / Twente University
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Github Skills (45)
visual-studio-code10
javascript10
static-analysis10
mobile-development10
cordova10
testing10
net10
typescript10
decompilation10
dotnet10
asp-net10
qunit10
lint10
websql10
indexeddb10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/tslint
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
:vertical_traffic_light: An extensible linter for the TypeScript language
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 8 PRs, 17 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Dick contributed to the TSLint project by addressing bug fixes, adding new features, and enhancing the codebase. Their work involved resolving scope errors, adding test cases for specific issues, and implementing a new rule related to switch case fall-through. Furthermore, the user modified the linter's core files, and extended the functionality of the code analysis capabilities by including the implementation of new checks.
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icsharpcode/ILSpy
Jul 2011 - Nov 2020
.NET Decompiler with support for PDB generation, ReadyToRun, Metadata (&more) - cross-platform!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dick primarily contributed to the UI and application logic of the .NET decompiler ILSpy. Their work involved adding features related to managing and opening assembly lists, which included implementing create and remove functionalities. Furthermore, the user implemented settings to enhance the user experience, such as the option to highlight the current line in the code view. These changes directly enhance the user interface and functionality of the decompiler.
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