Michael Van Tellingen
R&D Director Partner at Lab Digital
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMichael Van Tellingen is an R&D Director and partner with nearly two decades of hands-on experience designing architectures, leading engineering teams, and delivering production-grade digital products. He blends strategic leadership with active development, favoring automation, high-quality codebases, and open source tooling. His open-source footprint includes leading Python projects such as zeep (a top SOAP client), the Flask-DebugToolbar, and contributions to Sentry’s PHP SDK and various Django ecosystem projects. He has deep practical experience building SDKs, Terraform providers, and a PyPy-compatible PostgreSQL driver, showing both systems and language-level expertise. Based in the Randstad, he pairs client-facing delivery experience with internal platform and SDLC building, and often bridges legacy interoperability (SOAP) with modern, auto-generated SDK workflows.
18 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of ICT Bedrijfskundige Informatica, Bachelor of ICT Bedrijfskundige Informatica at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)MTS Technische kantoor automatisering, MTS Technische kantoor automatisering at ROC Midden Nederland
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (64)
debugging10
cms10
debug10
sentry10
boto10
pytest10
amazon-ecs10
python10
back-end-development10
ecommerce10
django10
amazon-sns10
testing10
query-tuning10
query-optimization10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pallets-eco/flask-debugtoolbar
Feb 2011 - Dec 2011
A toolbar overlay for debugging Flask applications
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 1 comment in 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development of the Flask-DebugToolbar, a debugging overlay for Flask applications. They added core features such as setup scripts, an example application, and various debugging panels, including those for timers, request variables, headers, SQLAlchemy queries, and versions. Their work involved integrating the toolbar with the Flask framework and implementing front-end components for displaying debugging information.
pythontoolbarflaskflask-debugtoolbaroverlay
django-oscar/django-oscar
Dec 2014 - May 2018
Domain-driven e-commerce for Django
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:472 commits, 237 PRs, 788 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the back-end of the Django-based e-commerce platform. Their work included refactoring the tox configuration, implementing a custom RequestFactory for testing, adding tests for basket view functionality, and integrating a merge from another branch, which contained overridable offer models. The user also made contributions to address issues such as fixing a Python 3 compatibility problem, as well as updating and maintaining the project's dependencies.
pythondjango-oscarecommercecommercedjango
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