Hans De Mulder is a Solution Architect based in Belgium with 11 years of experience designing cloud-native and DevOps-driven solutions, primarily in the .NET ecosystem. He progressed through hands-on software engineering and architecture roles at Vanbreda Risk & Benefits, evolving from developer to technical architect and now shaping cross-team cloud strategy. A pragmatic engineer, he brings production-minded improvements—such as enhancing enum serialization in the popular Refit .NET REST library—to improve API correctness and interoperability. His background managing both Windows and Linux stacks and maintaining web, mail and application servers gives him a strong operational perspective on reliability and deployment. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex business requirements into maintainable, testable systems while continuously pushing cloud and automation practices forward.
The automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET. Heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, Refit turns your REST API into a live interface.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:21 commits, 13 PRs, 42 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Hans primarily focused on improving the Refit library's functionality related to handling enum values within REST API interactions. They implemented the use of the `EnumMember` attribute to allow for custom serialization of enum values and applied this change to both URL and form-encoded parameter formatting. The user also addressed integration tests and made code adjustments to improve the overall accuracy of the library. These changes demonstrate a clear focus on enhancing the library's support for common .NET REST API use cases.
Contributions:20 PRs, 26 pushes, 26 branches in 4 years 5 months
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Hans De Mulder - Solution Architect at Vanbreda Risk & Benefits