Dolf Starreveld
Owner at Starfield Consulting
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDolf Starreveld is a seasoned technology leader and architect with over three decades of experience designing high-performance, fault-tolerant systems and guiding engineering organizations from startup to enterprise scale. As owner of Starfield Consulting and former CTO/VP-level advisor across companies like eHarmony, CertifiedTime, and Akamai, he combines hands-on systems and product delivery with strategic technical due diligence for investors. His expertise spans video and image compression (member of the JPEG committee), real-time and distributed systems, data center architecture, APIs, and mobile/web clients, with a proven record of on-time, high-quality delivery. Dolf often steps into turnaround roles—fixing architecture, building teams, and codifying processes—while remaining active in deployment and DevOps tasks, as evidenced by contributions to Moonfire NVR build automation. Based in Mountain View, he blends deep academic foundations in physics and computer science with practical experience across embedded, server-side, and UI domains. Colleagues rely on him for uncommon breadth: from kernel and driver-level work to large-scale matching algorithms and scalable backend architectures.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Physics Computer Science, MSc Physics Computer Science at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch, German, French
Github Skills (10)
bash10
build-automation10
cicd10
ubuntu10
cmake9
system-administration9
rust8
docker8
dockers8
camera7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
scottlamb/moonfire-nvr
Feb 2016 - Mar 2018
Moonfire NVR, a security camera network video recorder
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 16 PRs, 84 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dolf implemented a `prep.sh` script to automate the build process for the Moonfire NVR project, including package installation and binary setup. They made subsequent changes to the script, correcting build failures and adding capabilities to read configurations from a local file. The user also created and modified the setup scripts to include Ubuntu-specific configurations and corrected timezone and user setup. This indicates a focus on improving the build, installation, and deployment processes for the project.
video-recorderrustcamerajavascriptsecurity-camera
dolfs/moonfire-nvr
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:44 pushes, 25 branches in 2 years 10 months
video-recordercamerasecuritysecurity-cameranvr
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