Marco Andries
QA Manager at iText Software
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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RockstarMarco Andries is a QA leader and former developer with eight years of focused experience in software testing, automation, and agile delivery, now managing QA at Apryse and iText. He progressed from hands-on test engineering at TomTom and Tele Atlas to leading and shaping QA teams and automation practices as QA Team Lead and Manager. Marco blends development skills with deep expertise in system testing, Scrum, and test planning, enabling pragmatic quality strategies that improve product stability and release cadence. An active contributor to the popular iText .NET project, he has fixed encoding bugs and improved rendering and code quality—demonstrating a keen eye for low-level issues that impact end-user documents. Based in Ghent, Belgium, he’s equally comfortable diving into code-level fixes as he is coordinating cross-functional agile teams. His background suggests a practical, detail-oriented leader who values both automation and maintainable code quality.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (14)
pdf-generation10
asp-net10
net10
pdf10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
encoding9
accessibility6
ssl6
amazon-ec26
jfrog-cli6
jenkins-pipeline6
artifactory6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
itext/itext-dotnet
Apr 2018 - Jul 2020
iText for .NET is the .NET version of the iText library, formerly known as iTextSharp, which it replaces. iText represents the next level of SDKs for developers that want to take advantage of the benefits PDF can bring. Equipped with a better document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities and the ability to create, edit and enha
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the stability of the iText .NET library. Their work involved addressing issues related to character encoding, specifically for MacRoman. They also focused on code quality by removing commented-out lines that caused quality gate failures and added missing copyright headers. Additionally, the user implemented changes to process fillOpacity and strokeOpacity in the GraphicsState Processor, indicating improvements in rendering behavior.
abilitypdf-generationaccessibilitypdfuacredit
marcoandries/i7j-rups
Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
RUPS is an acronym for Reading and Updating PDF Syntax. RUPS is a tool built on top of iText® that allows you to look inside a PDF document and browse the different PDF objects and content streams.
Contributions:3 pushes in 9 months
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