Dieter Blomme
Technical Director at Dropsolid Digital Experience Agency
Melle, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolDieter Blomme is a pragmatic Technical Director and software architect with 14 years of experience delivering Drupal-driven web applications, server infrastructure, and multi-device user experiences. He blends hands-on engineering, DevOps and project leadership—having led distributed development workflows, SaaS Drupal deployments, and EU research projects like webinos focused on multi-device UIs. As founder of Picabit and a long-time Drupal specialist, he moves seamlessly between client-facing delivery and technical coaching roles, currently shaping delivery and strategy at Dropsolid. His open-source work includes backend integrations such as Trakt.tv support for the popular Sick-Beard project and contributions to MySQL automation tooling, showing attention to reliability and testable infrastructure. Trained as an engineer from Ghent University and seasoned in research and standards work, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and practical product focus. Colleagues describe him as a usability-minded architect who prefers shipping a usable product that truly fits customer needs.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Engineer in Computer science, Master of Science, Engineer in Computer science at Universiteit GentMathematics-science, Mathematics-science at Sint-Jozefsinstituut
Dutch, English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
json10
cookbook10
python10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
mysql10
chef-client10
api10
sql10
chef-solo10
testing9
urllib9
sql-database8
databases8
tsql8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/mysql
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Development repository for the mysql cookbook
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 40 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dieter primarily focused on modifying the initialization scripts and test configurations for the MySQL cookbook. Their contributions included updating SQL scripts to improve root user access and security, specifically addressing the use of localhost and 127.0.0.1. Additionally, the user updated several test files to reflect the changes in user access configurations and MySQL versions. They also corrected typos and adjusted the password-related settings.
cookbookmysqlchef-resourcemysql-servermanaged-by-terraform
midgetspy/Sick-Beard
Nov 2011 - Dec 2011
PVR & episode guide that downloads and manages all your TV shows
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Dieter primarily focused on integrating Trakt.tv notifications into the SickBeard application. They implemented the necessary framework, interface, and testing for Trakt notifications, including storing settings and sending notifications upon episode downloads. Further contributions included modifying the episode name handling and library update processes to ensure correct data processing and Trakt API integration. The user also addressed logging issues and improved the overall reliability of the Trakt notification system.
tv-showsepisodepvr
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