Dirkjan Bussink
Software Engineer at PlanetScale
Netherlands
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Top SchoolDirkjan Bussink is a versatile software engineer with 18 years of experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and production-grade infrastructure across companies like GitHub and PlanetScale. Deeply experienced in C, C++, C#, Ruby and Java, he has contributed to high-profile open-source projects including Rails, Nokogiri, Vitess and the Ruby spec suite, often focusing on security, testing and cross-platform robustness. At GitHub he worked at a principal level on internals and backup/restore tooling; at PlanetScale he continues to tackle scalable database and DevOps challenges. He pairs low-level systems expertise (TLS, C APIs, performance fixes) with pragmatic Ruby/Rails engineering and test automation, and has a track record of adding long-lasting features such as Gradle support in license tooling. Based in the Netherlands, he holds a strong academic background in Computer Science and Human Media Interaction and brings a knack for improving reliability and developer experience in large codebases.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master Human Media Interaction, Master Human Media Interaction at University of Twente
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (71)
testing10
databases10
bash10
ruby10
mtls10
haproxy10
app-framework10
sql10
libtls10
relational-databases10
database10
test-automation10
application-framework10
test-driven-design10
tls1210
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:1546 reviews, 149 commits, 703 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Dirkjan's commits primarily involve enhancing the Vitess database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. The contributions focus on improving the functionality of the MySQL server plugin by implementing features like configurable TLS versions and handling database-related operations. The user also refactored the authentication server plugin mechanism for more flexibility, and fixed issues related to SQL commands and index-related performance.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
github/backup-utils
Sep 2015 - Jan 2021
GitHub Enterprise Backup Utilities
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:30 commits, 11 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dirkjan's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the backup and restore utilities for GitHub Enterprise. They implemented and improved git-hooks backup and restore processes, adding new features to handle hook backups, specifically around tarball-based approaches to tackle permission issues. The user also added tests to ensure the functionality of the backup and restore processes, along with handling of password peppers. Their work included cluster restore functionality and addressing issues with missing files during backup.
backupsbackuprestoreenterprise
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