Jord Van Der Elst
ANWB AutoMaatje (vrijwilligerswerk)
North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJord Van Der Elst is a committed community coordinator and long-time volunteer with eight years of experience supporting distributed computing projects and online forums. Based in North Brabant, Netherlands, he has been a prolific contributor to the BOINC ecosystem since the mid-2000s—writing and maintaining FAQs, translating interfaces into Dutch, authoring official user manual content, and alpha-testing both client and server software. His work blends technical testing, documentation, and community moderation across projects like Enigma@Home, Cosmology@Home and Minecraft@Home, showing a rare comfort with both code-adjacent tasks and user-facing support. Jord also builds and configures PCs from components, combining hands-on hardware skills with software troubleshooting. Recently he expanded into local volunteer coordination with ANWB AutoMaatje, applying his community-first mindset to mobility assistance. Colleagues describe him as a quietly persistent problem-solver who prefers fixing the small details that keep large projects running smoothly.
8 years of coding experience
ICT, ICT at Spectrum Multimedia & ITMavo van Duvenvoorde, OosterhoutMCSEECABOCivil Engineering, Civil Engineering at MTS
English, Dutch
Github Skills (11)
kotlin10
boinc10
grid-computing10
php10
science10
android10
grid10
scientific-computing10
java10
distributed-computing10
python9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
Ageless93/Testing-templates-for-boinc-issues-PRs
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
pythonvolunteervolunteer-computingcomputingopen-source-software
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