Maurice Van Der Pot
Open Source Developer at Tdiff3
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMaurice Van Der Pot is an experienced open source developer and embedded software architect with 19 years of hands-on experience across Linux, Free Software, and C/C++/D/Python ecosystems. Based in Eindhoven, he contributes to notable projects like ReText—where he implemented and modularized table-mode editing and UI hooks—and maintains terminal-based and GUI diff/merge tools such as Tdiff3 and KDiff3. His background spans deep embedded work at Philips and ASML, including test- and software-architecture leadership, driving unit-testing strategy and aligning roadmaps with stakeholders. Comfortable across low-level firmware, desktop applications, and developer tooling, he combines pragmatic engineering with a focus on testability and maintainability. A perhaps less obvious strength is his long-running role as a project maintainer and release coordinator, showing he balances feature work with community-facing stewardship.
19 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc., Computer Science, M. Sc., Computer Science at Radboud University
English, Dutch
Github Skills (7)
markdown10
editors10
markdown-it10
restructuredtext10
text-editor10
editor10
python10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
retext-project/retext
Dec 2013 - Nov 2017
ReText: Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 47 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Maurice's primary contribution focuses on implementing table mode functionality within the ReText editor. This involved the initial reimplementation of the table mode and moving the associated code to its own module, enhancing code organization. Further contributions included adding table mode support for reStructuredText and integrating a menu item and toolbar button for easy access. Overall, the user demonstrates a strong understanding of the editor's architecture, user interface, and markup language parsing.
markdownrestructuredtextretextmarkdown-editoreditor
Griffon26/tdiff3
Dec 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:108 commits, 104 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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