Merlijn Van Der Maaden
Vessel Manager at Fugro
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMerlijn Van Der Maaden is a maritime operations leader with 18 years of experience across commercial and offshore sectors, currently serving as Vessel Manager at Fugro after roles from Chief Officer - DPO to marine surveyor. He combines hands-on sea time (7 years at sea) with shore-side expertise in QHSSE, incident investigation, claim management and analytical reporting, regularly leading complex investigations in the ARA region. Merlijn has steered vessels and projects in offshore wind, ROV and research environments, bringing practical leadership under regulatory and operational pressure. Beyond maritime operations he contributes to open-source software under @mvdfugro, notably improving HTTP handling and thread safety in the widely used pywikibot library. Based in Utrecht, he blends technical curiosity with operational rigor, making him equally comfortable with incident root-cause analysis and contributing code to global collaborative projects.
18 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Maritiem Officier, Bachelor's degree, Maritiem Officier at Hogere Zeevaartschool MIWBHonors/Regents High School/Secondary Diploma Program, Honors/Regents High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Christelijk Lyceum Zeist
Github Skills (8)
http10
threaded10
thread10
hyper-threading10
python10
multithreading10
mediawiki-api10
api-client9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/pywikibot
Dec 2007 - Oct 2017
A Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API. This is a mirror from gerrit.wikimedia.org. Do not submit any patches here. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_account for contributing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:326 commits in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Merlijn primarily contributed to the core functionality of the pywikibot library, focusing on improving and maintaining its HTTP handling and integration with the MediaWiki API. Their work involved the addition of threaded cookie-eating HTTP libraries, along with lockable cookie jar classes, and the implementation of a thread safe connection pool. They also addressed bugs related to redirects and implemented changes to the request methods. Additionally, the user contributed to the framework for the site specific APIs.
pythonsubmitwikidatawikipediawikia
valhallasw/gerrit-patch-uploader
Oct 2013 - Aug 2022
Contributions:70 commits, 8 PRs, 23 pushes in 8 years 11 months
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