Erik Winkels
Software Developer & Release Manager at PowerDNS
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Winkels is a versatile software developer and release manager with 17 years of experience, currently focused on PowerDNS back-end development and release work. He combines broad systems-level expertise across languages like Common Lisp, C++, Python and Lua with hands-on Unix/Linux operations, Docker, DNS and Git-based workflows. Formerly a senior developer and Scrum Master at Arbor/Netscout, he bridges technical and managerial perspectives to help teams ship stable, secure network and security products. An active open-source contributor, Erik has improved stability and DNSSEC validation in the widely used PowerDNS codebase and authored a Common Lisp bot example for the AI Challenge. Based in Delft, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a long history of server-side systems design, and in his spare time experiments with game programming and virtual reality.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Dutch, English
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Github Skills (23)
authorisation10
debug10
c-language10
authority10
recursion10
dnssec10
dns10
parsing10
common-lisp10
text-parsing10
cprogramming-language10
recursive10
logic10
auth10
testing8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
PowerDNS/pdns
Apr 2017 - Nov 2022
PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 reviews, 228 commits, 272 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the PowerDNS Recursor and Authoritative Server codebases. Their work involved addressing overflow issues in the dnsdist API, fixing errors in the changelog, and resolving DNSSEC validation problems. Additionally, the user merged branches, updated documentation, and removed unnecessary code elements. These contributions are focused on improving the stability, security, and functionality of the PowerDNS suite.
dnsdistpowerdns-recursordnssystems-programmingrecursor
aichallenge/aichallenge
Mar 2011 - Oct 2011
The source code that drives the AI Challenge
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Erik's primary contribution was developing an initial Common Lisp example bot for the AI Challenge. This involved writing code to parse game state information, including parameters, food, water, and ant positions, from an input stream. The user also implemented functions to handle game turns and movement commands, laying the foundation for an automated game-playing agent.
pythonartificial-intelligencemachine-learning
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