Merlijn Tishauser
ENGINEERING&ARCHITECTURE Lead at InShared
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMerlijn Tishauser is an engineering and architecture lead with 11+ years of experience helping organizations— from scale-ups to regulated banks—improve how they build, collaborate, and deliver. He combines hands-on software engineering and cloud expertise with technical coaching and organizational change skills, grounded in Extreme Programming and DevOps practices. Known for pragmatic simplicity and shared ownership, he pairs engineering logic with psychological insight (trained in transactional analysis) to remove friction and create lasting behavioral change. An active contributor to open-source tooling for monitoring (improvements to the Diamond Python agent), he still enjoys coding and brings practical experience across Python, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure, and CI/CD pipelines. Based in Amsterdam, he also pursues photography professionally, a creative outlet that informs his empathetic leadership and eye for systems-level detail.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
English, English at Language Institute Regina CoeliInformation Technology, Information Technology at Open UniversiteitConceptueel Beeld, Film/Video and Photographic Arts, Conceptueel Beeld, Film/Video and Photographic Arts at FotoacademieKunst&Educatie, Kunst&Educatie at NHL HogeschoolCoach/Counsellor Transactional Analysis, Counseling Psychology, Coach/Counsellor Transactional Analysis, Counseling Psychology at Theo van der Heijden
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Github Skills (9)
monitoring10
eventstore10
mocks10
python10
unit-test10
mocking10
api-design9
rabbitmq9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
python-diamond/Diamond
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Diamond is a python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite (and others). It is capable of collecting cpu, memory, network, i/o, load and disk metrics. Additionally, it features an API for implementing custom collectors for gathering metrics from almost any source.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Merlijn primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the Diamond monitoring agent, particularly focusing on collectors for specific services. They implemented options to replace special characters in RabbitMQ queue and virtualhost names, improving data formatting and compatibility. Additionally, the user added a new collector for Eventstore Projections, including tests, improving Diamond's monitoring capabilities for event store data. Further contributions involved refactoring the Eventstore Projections collector by splitting configuration options and updating the Eventstore host URL.
memorypythonprometheusdiamondmonitoring
merlijntishauser/dfgen
Mar 2018 - Nov 2021
Python tool to generate a Dockerfile
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 8 months
dockerfilepythondockerpython3python-tool
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