Erin Van Der Veen
Senior Specialist Functional Engineer at Tweag by Modus Create
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolErin Van Der Veen is a Senior Specialist Functional Engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining functional programming tooling and libraries. She began her career stewarding the Clean language and the only commercial software written in it, then transitioned to Haskell where she co-created and maintains the Haskell WebAuthn library. At Tweag she contributed core features to the Nickel configuration language—improving its REPL, standard library, and docs—and her work helped spawn and lead the Topiary team. Erin is also an experienced Nix consultant for companies of varying sizes and brings practical deployment know-how to language and tooling projects. Based in Stockholm, she blends academic rigor from Radboud and Umeå with hands-on open-source craftsmanship and a knack for turning research languages into production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Software Science, Master of Science - MS, Software Science at Radboud UniversityMaster's degree, Software Science, Master's degree, Software Science at Umeå UniversityAtheneum, Natuur en Techniek, Atheneum, Natuur en Techniek at Stedelijk Scholengemeenschap Nijmegen
English, Dutch, Swedish
Github Skills (10)
nickel10
rust10
lib10
configuration-language10
standard-library10
configuration-file9
configurations9
configuration-management9
documentation8
nix7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tweag/nickel
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
Better configuration for less
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 38 commits, 17 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Erin primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Nickel configuration language, focusing on enhancing the REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) and standard library. Their work included adding new commands to the REPL, such as a print command for recursive evaluation, and implementing essential functions for lists, numbers, and strings within the standard library. Furthermore, the user has implemented recursive let-bindings in the language. They also improved the documentation by adding examples and Markdown formatting.
configurationinfrastructureconfignickeldotfiles
ErinvanderVeen/GW2-Inv-search
Sep 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
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