Marlon Haenen is a pragmatic ICT professional with 10 years of experience supporting and building reliable IT services at Maastricht UMC+ and earlier helpdesk and systems roles. Calm, service-oriented and self-taught in development, he contributes backend improvements to high-scale open-source projects such as a Discord music bot serving millions of servers, demonstrating practical experience with permission systems, command handling and LavaLink integration. Comfortable both in teams and working independently, he pairs strong troubleshooting skills from security-focused 2nd-line support with hands-on experience in Linux, Android and Docker-based deployments. Outside work he continually sharpens his craft through personal projects and system tinkering, while keeping a balanced life with jogging, gardening and film.
10 years of coding experience
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A Discord music bot serving music in over 3 million discord servers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:17 commits, 29 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Marlon primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Discord music bot. They implemented features such as requiring users to be in a voice channel to use the "play" command, added a skip user function, and created a method to disable commands globally. The user also made improvements to the permission system, adding functionality to the "config" and "language" commands. Additionally, they implemented code changes for the "list" command to show the length of songs and the debug command to have debug info about LavaLink.
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
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