Erik Terpstra
Founding Engineer & Backend Developer at Open Education Foundation
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolErik Terpstra is a founding engineer and backend specialist with 14 years of experience building APIs, backend architectures and BDD-driven acceptance testing frameworks. Based in Amsterdam, he combines hands-on development with product-minded architecture work across startups and media platforms, most notably shaping Blendle’s backend and content conversion workflows. He has led hiring and team-building efforts as well as technical strategy in roles from software architect to founder/owner, balancing delivery with long-term maintainability. An active open-source contributor, Erik has improved Gleam’s standard library and helped implement string and regex primitives, showing a knack for low-level language and runtime work beyond everyday web backends. He favors pragmatic API design and thorough testing practices that keep systems reliable as they scale.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ing Information Technology, Ing Information Technology at Hanze University of Applied Sciences GroningenRSG Coevorden
Github Skills (10)
text-manipulation10
strings10
erlang10
gleam10
testing10
stl9
regular-expression9
typesc8
typescript8
type-system8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
gleam-lang/stdlib
May 2020 - Jun 2020
🎁 Gleam's standard library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 11 PRs, 35 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Erik's contributions primarily involve enhancing the Gleam standard library. They focused on implementing and refining string manipulation functions, including `trim`, `trim_left`, `trim_right`, `starts_with`, `ends_with`, `slice`, `pad_left`, `pad_right`, `drop_left`, `drop_right`, `pop_grapheme`, and `to_graphemes`. These changes involved updating the Gleam code and corresponding Erlang code, as well as adding unit tests for the new functionalities. They have also implemented a regular expression module.
gleamerlangjavascriptstandard-librarytypescript
eterps/loader
May 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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