Marco Van Wieringen is a relationship manager with 17 years of professional experience based in Hoofddorp, Netherlands, currently working at Hoogendoorn Projectbeplanting in interior planting and hydroculture. With a background in agro-logistics and facility management, he blends commercial relationship skills with deep domain knowledge of plant cultivation and supply chains. Beyond client-facing work, Marco contributes to open-source software projects, notably integrating FreeRDP and Remmina into the OpenIndiana build system and improving code quality in the Bareos backup project, showing a practical aptitude for back-end engineering and systems integration. His mix of hands-on technical contributions and plant-industry expertise gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective that helps bridge operational and IT needs. Colleagues value his attention to detail—evident in maintenance of manifests, dependency fixes and compiler warning resolutions—and his pragmatic approach to solving integration challenges. He holds vocational and professional training in plant production, agro-logistics and facility management, underpinning his commercial role with solid technical and operational foundations.
17 years of coding experience
Kaderfunctionaris plantenteelt en handel, Kaderfunctionaris plantenteelt en handel at Florens Wellant College
Agro-logistiek van de AGF markt, Agro-logistiek van de AGF markt at Hogeschool voor Voeding, Milieu en Landbouw
Facilitair Management & Beheersen van Facilitaire Processen, Facilitair Management & Beheersen van Facilitaire Processen at Hogeschool NCOI
Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution (licensed under AGPLv3) which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1935 commits, 17 PRs, 212 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Marco's contributions primarily involve fixing compiler warnings, bumping version dates, and correcting variable types in the Bareos codebase. They addressed issues related to compiler warnings in source code files such as src/lib/bsock.h. The user also improved the code by ensuring correct type usage, particularly for data structures in attributed.c, and further, updated the versions with dates of several core headers. These activities indicate an effort to maintain code quality and alignment with software versioning practices.
Unified build system for OpenIndiana distribution components
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 reviews, 29 commits, 35 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily contributed to the integration of the FreeRDP remote desktop client and Remmina. They updated and added new packages, including FreeRDP version 2.2.0 and remmina 1.4.8. Their work involved modifying manifest files and code for dependencies to integrate the desktop applications, which involved substantial modifications to the project's build system and components. The user also updated the libgtop, libsynctex, and mate-desktop components.
esxioperating-systemrisk-assessmentredfishillumos
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.