Jeroen Van Meeuwen
Chief Technology Officer at The Fedora Project
Zollikofen, Bern, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolJeroen Van Meeuwen is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 15+ years building and architecting open-source groupware and infrastructure solutions from systems-level engineering to executive leadership. He combines deep hands-on expertise (RHCE, LPIC-2, CCNA, MCP) with product-facing roles at Kolab Systems and Apheleia IT, designing and delivering scalable mail and directory integrations. An active contributor to projects like Roundcube and Cyrus IMAP, he focuses on backend robustness—LDAP integration, caching and ACLs—bringing maintainability to complex server stacks. A longtime Fedora community founder and contributor, he bridges community-driven R&D with commercial product strategy. Based in Switzerland, he also teaches and runs workshops, making complex architectures accessible to practitioners. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who pairs certification-backed technical depth with an eye for pragmatic, documentable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
None, Informatica & Economics, None, Informatica & Economics at Utrecht University
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (7)
ldap10
php10
roundcube10
webmail10
memcached8
apim7
api7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
roundcube/roundcubemail
Feb 2013 - Feb 2015
The Roundcube Webmail suite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jeroen contributed to the Roundcube Webmail suite by implementing and modifying backend components. Their work involved adding configuration options for access control lists (ACLs), fixing sorting issues within the LDAP integration, and integrating a new LDAP library. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving server-side functionality and LDAP directory integration. Additionally, the user updated the caching mechanisms within the application.
mailsmtpwebmailemailthunderbird
kanarip/cyrus-imapd
Jul 2016 - Dec 2022
Cyrus IMAP is an email, contacts and calendar server
Contributions:64 pushes, 11 branches in 6 years 6 months
cyruscontactscalendaremailimap
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