Fried Hoeben
Senior Software Engineer at Xurrent (Formerly 4me)
Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFried Hoeben is a senior software engineer and architect based in Utrecht with over 12 years of experience delivering robust distributed systems and integration solutions. He combines hands-on development in Java and .NET with a strong focus on performance engineering, portals, and integration testing, while comfortably bridging business and technical stakeholders. Fried has a long consulting history across major Dutch enterprises (Rabobank, KPN, ABN AMRO) and currently contributes to Xurrent, bringing both strategic architecture and practical delivery. He is an active contributor to notable open-source projects like FitNesse, where he improved core back-end reliability around regex and date handling—an indication of his attention to subtle, high-impact bugs. Known as a creative problem solver, he balances the big picture with pragmatic detail and fosters productive team interactions. With an MSc in Computer Science from Utrecht University, he often blends theoretical rigor with real-world verification and performance tuning.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Utrecht University
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (16)
regular-expression10
javas10
debugging10
debug10
java10
api-design9
unit-testing9
dates8
datetime8
datetimes8
fitnesse6
nhibernate6
continuous-integration6
svn6
teamcity6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
unclebob/fitnesse
Sep 2013 - Dec 2022
FitNesse -- The Acceptance Test Wiki
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 51 reviews, 436 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Fried primarily focused on improving the robustness and functionality of the FitNesse codebase related to regular expression handling and date-related features. They addressed potential null pointer exceptions in the `TypeAdapter` class and improved the usability of the `Today` symbol. Their changes involved creating and modifying Java code within the `src/fit` and `src/fitnesse/wikitext/parser` directories, suggesting a strong focus on core logic enhancements.
wikiacceptancefitnesse
fitnesse/fitnessedotorg
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
Repository for the fitnesse.org website.
Contributions:58 commits, 4 PRs, 72 pushes in 4 years
fitnesse
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