Dimitri Molenaars
Traffic Controller at ABR Traffic Services
Katavi Region, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDimitri Molenaars is an experienced operations professional and technophile with 14 years across customer-facing, quality assurance, and traffic control roles, currently serving as a Traffic Controller in the Katavi Region. Trained in application development and media development, he blends technical training with practical frontline experience from call centres, delivery logistics, and postal operations. He contributes to open-source software—most notably improving modules and error handling in the popular sopel IRC bot—showing attention to backend detail and maintainability. Comfortable in high-pressure environments, he pairs procedural discipline with a developer’s mindset for debugging and incremental improvement. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic, dependable, and quietly technical, able to translate operational requirements into practical fixes.
14 years of coding experience
VMBO-T, Chemistry, Physics, Maths, English, Dutch, and Economy, VMBO-T, Chemistry, Physics, Maths, English, Dutch, and Economy at Grotius College DelftMBO niveau 4, Application Developer, MBO niveau 4, Application Developer at ZadkineMBO-4, Media development, MBO-4, Media development at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam
Dutch, English, Swedish
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Github Skills (8)
irc10
python10
codemod9
modification9
debug8
debugging8
apim7
api7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sopel-irc/sopel
Dec 2011 - Nov 2015
:robot::speech_balloon: An easy-to-use and highly extensible IRC Bot framework. Formerly Willie.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:324 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dimitri primarily contributed to the `sopel-irc/sopel` repository by modifying the weather module to use degree symbols and updated the Wolfram Alpha calculator with improved error handling. They also made adjustments to the tweetwatcher and countdown modules. Additional contributions included adding and updating aliases for existing features. Finally, the user added debug messages to help with the whois feature.
irc-botirc-bot-frameworkballoonpythonbot
tyrope/lionroarbot
Jul 2014 - Aug 2019
Contributions:142 commits, 86 pushes, 6 comments in 5 years 2 months
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