Lars Stegman
Software-ingenieur at ALTEN Nederland
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLars Stegman is a software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on back-end systems, embedded data collection, and REST API development. Based in the Randstad, he currently builds sensor-to-cloud pipelines and a FastAPI-based REST API for Polymetallic Nodule Collection at Allseas while also consulting at ALTEN Nederland. He contributes to notable open-source tooling such as influxdata/telegraf, adding security-focused features like secret support in HTTP/WebSocket headers and improving plugin behavior and rate limiting for ingestion listeners. His background blends computer science with a minor in electrical engineering, enabling him to bridge hardware interfaces and software logging infrastructures and add support for proprietary protocols. Comfortable shipping production systems and extending OSS, he combines practical field-facing experience with a knack for making instrumentation and metrics more robust. A less obvious strength is his history of optimization work and scheduler support projects, reflecting a continual focus on operational efficiency.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Delft University of TechnologyHigh School, Voorbereidend Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs, High School, Voorbereidend Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs at Dalton Lyceum Barendrecht
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (20)
go10
metric10
websocket9
http9
websockets-client9
client-websocket9
influxdb9
websocket-client9
monitoring8
json7
swift6
macos6
automations6
swiftui6
automation6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/telegraf
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 1 commit, 21 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Lars contributed to the `influxdata/telegraf` repository by implementing new features and making enhancements to existing functionality. Their work included adding support for secrets in HTTP and WebSocket headers, allowing for more secure configurations. They also improved the functionality of the mock input plugin by adding a baseline option to the sine wave generator and enhanced the final aggregator with the option to disable appending "_final". Furthermore, the user integrated rate limiting for the influxdb_v2_listener and improved its functionalities, and added the option to choose the metric time source.
agentreportingcollectingagent-servertelegraf
allseas/telegraf
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.
Contributions:1 PR, 93 pushes, 35 branches in 1 year 1 month
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