Erik Van Den Brink
South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolErik Van Den Brink is an experienced software engineer with 11 years of practice bridging technology and business, focused on improving product quality and eliminating waste through pragmatic technical solutions. He combines strong backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to core NEO blockchain projects like neo, neo-vm and neo-python—with full-stack work on the Neon Wallet and neon-js, including Ledger integration and NEP-5/NEP2 improvements. Known as goal-oriented and people-focused, he often serves as a translator between security, development and management, advocating for analyst needs while driving cross-team alignment. He holds a technical bachelor’s degree and an MBA background, and in his spare time contributes to notable open-source blockchain projects, signaling both domain depth and a continuous drive to learn.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied SciencesMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Industrial management and economics, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Industrial management and economics at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (37)
javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
net10
virtual-machine10
neo4j10
api10
cryptography10
blockchain10
dotnet-core10
network10
csharp10
react10
p2p10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
CityOfZion/neo-python
Dec 2017 - Nov 2021
Python Node and SDK for the NEO 2.x blockchain
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 142 commits, 466 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Erik made several code changes focused on improving the `neo-python` project, specifically the Python Node and SDK for the NEO 2.x blockchain. Their contributions included fixing bootstrap directory issues, refactoring logging levels, and fixing exceptions thrown when signing transactions without an open wallet. The user also worked on improving the JSON output for invocation transactions. Additionally, the user implemented features related to handling balance query failures for NEP-5 tokens.
pythonneo2-xblockchainsdk
neo-project/neo-vm
Mar 2019 - Oct 2022
NEO Virtual Machine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Erik contributed to the NEO virtual machine by addressing several issues and enhancing functionality. They fixed a negative count check in `NEWARRAY` and `NEWSTRUCT` operations. They also expanded opcode names for improved readability, specifically for byte push operations. Further contributions included code modifications to handle boolean values in the `GetByteArray` method and fixing the `EmitPush(bool)` method within the ScriptBuilder.
neovirtual-machine
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