Duco Van Amstel
Principal Engineer at Egen
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDuco Van Amstel is a Principal Engineer based in London with 14 years of experience helping organisations modernize cloud platforms, developer workflows and CI/CD at scale. He blends hands-on systems engineering, DevOps and product-minded leadership—having led migrations that supported tens of thousands of concurrent users and helped design platforms powering hundreds of millions to billions in revenue. Duco is comfortable both coaching senior engineers and rolling up his sleeves to deliver critical infrastructure, automation and LLM/ML integration guidance. An active open-source contributor, he has improved backend reliability and CI/tooling in notable projects like matterbridge and go-proto-validators, with a focus on stability, build automation and cross-platform support. His background includes a PhD-level grounding in computer science and manycore architectures, giving him a rare mix of deep research rigor and pragmatic delivery experience.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Université Grenoble AlpesClasses Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles MPSI - MP*, Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles MPSI - MP* at Lycée Louis-le-GrandMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at École normale supérieure de LyonHigh School diploma Science, High School diploma Science at Lycée Chabrillan
English, French, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (25)
go-modules10
cicd10
go10
slack10
devops10
api-design9
protocol-buffers9
validations9
dependency-management9
apim9
validation9
golang9
automation9
api9
automations9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mwitkow/go-proto-validators
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
Generate message validators from .proto annotations.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 33 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Duco primarily focused on improving the project's build and deployment processes. They added Go Module support, reworked the CI setup, and added support for OSX in the build scripts. Additionally, the user fixed a panic related to unknown fields, showing a focus on code quality and stability. The user also updated dependencies and automated the use of Gazelle, streamlining project maintenance.
golangprotocol-buffersannotationsvalidationproto
42wim/matterbridge
Oct 2018 - May 2019
bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 43 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Duco primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the matterbridge project, focusing on improving the Slack bridge functionality. They added features like the inclusion of the gateway name in remote nick formatting, enhancing identification in multi-channel forwarding. Also, they updated dependencies to the latest versions and addressed code quality issues, including fixing race conditions in tests, and implementing several code cleanups and refactoring efforts.
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