Hugo Trippaers
Mission Critical Software Engineer at Apache CloudStack
Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Trippaers is a mission-critical software engineer with 14 years of experience building and maintaining resilient systems across banking, energy trading and public transport. Based in Houten, Netherlands, he combines deep systems and back-end Java expertise with hands-on operations know-how from roles spanning systems administration to team leadership. At Schuberg Philis and as owner of Sonicity he focuses on dependable software for constrained environments and cloud-managed networking, bridging low-level components and higher-level orchestration. As an Apache CloudStack PMC member and contributor he has improved IaaS backend integrations and database reliability in a well-known open-source cloud platform. He also enhanced security and flexibility in Java libraries like java-apns by introducing SSLContext builders and robust certificate handling—an example of his attention to both correctness and practical maintainability. Hugo is known for steady leadership, strong communication, and a preference for solutions that perform under pressure.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of ICT, Bachelor of ICT at Hogeschool van Utrecht
Github Skills (13)
javas10
ssl10
tls1210
keystore10
tls1310
back-end-development10
apache-cloudstack10
java10
security10
database-management9
testing9
apn9
network-configuration9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cloudstack
Aug 2012 - Sep 2014
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:70 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hugo's contributions primarily involve Java-based back-end development within the Apache CloudStack IaaS cloud computing platform. The commits demonstrate the user's involvement in license updates, integration with external systems such as Nicira NVP, and bug fixes related to database interactions. The user's work includes modifying existing code to add features, improving existing features, and fixing bugs in the server-side code.
pythonapache-cloudstackxcp-nghostingcloud-computing
notnoop/java-apns
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Java Apple Push Notification Service Provider
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Hugo focused on enhancing the `java-apns` library, a Java Apple Push Notification Service provider. Their contributions involved implementing a builder pattern for the SSLContext, enabling more flexible and secure SSL configuration. Key updates included changes to the test server to require and validate client certificates using updated certificates and ensuring immediate failure upon SSL handshake errors. Further improvements involved expanding certificate management to include JKS files and selection by alias.
pushprovidernotification-servicenotificationspush-notification
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