Jacob Vlijm
Python Programmer at Freelance
Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJacob Vlijm is an experienced Python and Vala developer with over a decade of open-source work, currently contributing as a permanent member of the Ubuntu Budgie team and maintaining multiple projects packaged in PPAs. He combines deep Linux and Ubuntu expertise—evident from prolific contributions on Ask Ubuntu and positive coverage of his projects on sites like OMG!Ubuntu!—with hands-on freelance engineering. Beyond software, Jacob is a long-standing classical guitar professor and festival director, bringing discipline and creative thinking from music into technical problem solving. He holds post-HBO training in management and leverages that business perspective to deliver user-focused, well-packaged open-source solutions.
11 years of coding experience
U.M. (Permorming Musician), Classical Guitar, U.M., U.M. (Permorming Musician), Classical Guitar, U.M. at ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunstenHoger Managenent, Business Administration and Management, General, Post HBO, Hoger Managenent, Business Administration and Management, General, Post HBO at Windesheim
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
3,149reputation
226kreached
51answers
7questions
image-processing
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python
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tkinter
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image
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Github Skills (71)
raven10
solus10
linux10
mate10
user-experience10
desktop10
mate-desktop10
debian-packaging9
image-processing9
ubuntu9
python9
image9
artwork9
weather-api9
weather9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
UbuntuBudgie/QuickChar
Jun 2019 - May 2022
Quickly find and choose the equivalent locale character for an ascii character
Contributions:33 commits, 33 pushes, 5 comments in 2 years 11 months
characterequivalentasciilocale
UbuntuBudgie/experimental
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
Tweaks for your budgie-desktop
Contributions:438 commits, 410 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
electronbudgietweaksdesktopbudgie-desktop
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