Michael Van Der Westhuizen
Production Engineer at Facebook
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMichael Van Der Westhuizen is a hands-on Production Engineer with 16+ years building large-scale, high-volume distributed data processing systems and a deep specialty in sustainable modern C++ development. Currently at Facebook, he brings broad experience in systems architecture, cross-platform engineering, CORBA-based distributed computing, Oracle relational design and UNIX server administration. His career spans senior architecture and consulting roles across telecoms and OSS firms where he led refactoring, re-engineering and troubleshooting of mission-critical services. Based in Stony Stratford, he combines pragmatic engineering with long-term maintainability—often tackling legacy modernization projects that require both low-level optimization and scalable architectural thinking.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (76)
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libsodium9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
r1mikey/meta-picoxcell
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
r1mikey/research-unix-v7
Dec 2019 - Oct 2022
Research UNIX v7 ported the the Raspberry Pi
Contributions:2 releases, 218 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 10 months
unixraspberry-piraspberrylinuxancient
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