Ivo Smits
Owner at BEER N TEA
Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolIvo Smits is a pragmatic software engineer and entrepreneur with 16 years of experience building web applications, Linux infrastructure, and embedded-aware software while studying Electrical Engineering at TU Eindhoven. As owner of UCIS Internet and creator of GlobalTuners, he blends hands-on C#, C/C++, PHP and JavaScript development with Debian server administration and networking. He has a track record of shipping reliable backend fixes in high-profile open-source projects like Mono, addressing tricky runtime bugs in serialization, finalization and TLS behavior. In leadership roles including VP Product Development at LISTEQ and backend development at BEER N TEA, he focuses on making systems work in production and iterating quickly on product needs. Based in Breda, he combines formal engineering training with a largely self-taught, hacker’s approach to practical problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
VWO, N&T+N&G, VWO, N&T+N&G at Onze Lieve Vrouwelyceum, BredaBSc, Electrical engineering, BSc, Electrical engineering at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (20)
runtimes10
net10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
serialization10
windows-forms10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
networking9
xamarin9
garbage-collector8
html6
audio-streaming6
ssh6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mono/mono
Feb 2013 - May 2016
Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ivo primarily contributed to the Mono project by addressing bugs related to serialization, finalization, and exception handling within the .NET runtime implementation. Their work included fixing serialization issues for the `DateTime` struct to ensure compatibility with Microsoft's implementation. They also resolved issues related to finalization in `Form` and `ToolStripItem` classes. In addition, the user fixed issues related to socket connections and TLS stream behavior.
dotnetjitruntimemonoandroid
UCIS/lets_encrypt.php
Apr 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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