Jan Van Doorn
Hogeschoooldocent at The Apache Software Foundation
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJan Van Doorn is a systems engineer and educator with 13+ years focused on CDN and IPTV architecture, currently teaching Cybersecurity and Cloud at Hogeschool Utrecht. He combines high-level architecture with hands-on development in Golang, C and Java, and has deep practical expertise in fragmented IP video delivery, MPEG formats and legacy video systems. Jan has driven streaming infrastructure at Comcast and Apple and contributes to Apache projects like Traffic Control and Traffic Server, where his work spans documentation, stability fixes and feature extensions for widely used CDN and proxy software. A proven project starter and rapid prototyper, he pairs network-level know-how (TCP/IP, HTTP) with software craftsmanship to solve large-scale delivery problems.
13 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Colorado DenverBSC EE CSC, BSC EE CSC at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
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Github Skills (14)
api-documentation10
caching10
debug10
proxy10
c-language10
restructuredtext10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
documentation10
apache9
plugin9
http8
configuration-management8
resource-management8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficcontrol
Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
Apache Traffic Control is an Open Source implementation of a Content Delivery Network
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 142 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jan's commits primarily focus on updating and refining documentation within the `apache/trafficcontrol` repository. The contributions include modifying existing documentation files related to admin usage, API development, and development practices. Furthermore, the user has made changes to documentation-related configuration files and image assets. These changes collectively enhance the clarity and accuracy of the project's documentation for end-users and developers.
apachecontent-deliverycontent-delivery-networktraffictrafficcontrol
apache/trafficserver
Jul 2012 - Sep 2021
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily focused on fixing bugs and addressing warnings within the Apache Traffic Server project. Their contributions include resolving issues related to cache sizes exceeding 16TB, fixing clang compiler warnings in multiple files, and addressing resource leaks within various plugin implementations. They also added code for a new dscp_remap plugin and added options for the prefetch plugin. These changes suggest a focus on improving stability, functionality, and extending the capabilities of the caching proxy server.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
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