Marten De Vries
Head Of Software Engineering at MindAffect
Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMarten De Vries is Head of Software Engineering with 12 years of experience, currently leading the engineering organization at MindAffect from Utrecht. He combines a strong academic background—an MSc in Computational Cognitive Science (summa cum laude) and a BSc in Artificial Intelligence (cum laude)—with hands-on backend expertise in databases and Node.js. A long-time open-source contributor, he has made substantive fixes and feature enhancements to the widely used PouchDB ecosystem, improving replication, compaction, and CouchDB-compatibility. He maintains projects like openteacher and is active on Launchpad, demonstrating a blend of product-minded leadership and developer-level problem solving. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who brings rigorous validation and data-integrity focus to distributed data systems.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computational Cognitive Science, Judicium: Summa Cum Laude, Master of Science - MS, Computational Cognitive Science, Judicium: Summa Cum Laude at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Github Skills (10)
couchdb10
databases10
javascript10
pouchdb10
nodejs10
back-end-development10
database10
api-design9
json9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pouchdb/pouchdb-server
Apr 2014 - Aug 2018
CouchDB-compatible server built on PouchDB and Node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 411 commits, 76 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Marten's commits primarily involve modifications to the core functionality of the PouchDB-server project, specifically concerning the implementation of update functionality and ensuring data integrity through proper validation. The code changes focused on adapting the system to utilize external components like couchdb-objects, couchdb-render and ensuring compliance with the CouchDB specifications. The user also made improvements and corrections to the validation logic.
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pouchdb/pouchdb
Aug 2013 - Oct 2017
:kangaroo: - PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 28 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Marten primarily contributed to the PouchDB codebase by implementing and modifying core functionalities. Their work included adding options to existing methods like `compact()` and `destroy()`, and adjusting the return value of the `compact()` function. They also fixed documentation links and refactored code related to blob creation and other utility functions. Furthermore, they made adjustments to allow replication fields in documents, demonstrating a good understanding of the database's internal workings.
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