Michiel De Jong
Data Interoperability Engineer
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMichiel De Jong is a Data Interoperability Engineer with 15 years of R&D and engineering experience building federated, privacy-preserving systems and open web standards. A serial founder and community builder—Ponder Source, Unhosted, ToS;DR and PDS Interop—he combines hands-on backend work (authentication, OIDC, WebDAV, Web Access Control) with protocol design for cross-ledger settlements (LedgerLoops) and federated bookkeeping. Formerly at Mozilla, Ripple and Inrupt, he helped ship core parts of Solid servers and client libraries and has contributed significant security and auth improvements to widely used projects like node-solid-server and rdflib.js. Based in Utrecht with an MSc in Computer Science from Leiden, he uniquely blends practical server-side engineering, standards advocacy, and small-scale hosted services (IndieHosters) to make user-controlled data and real-time portability workable in production.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at Leiden University
English, Spanish, Dutch, German, French, Bahasa
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
authorizations10
javascript10
apidoc10
testing10
acl10
authentication10
user-authentication10
linked-data10
php10
access-control-list10
api10
authorization10
access-control10
rdf10
json-ld10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
remotestorage/remotestorage.js
Nov 2010 - Nov 2014
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 1488 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Michiel's contributions focused on updating and refining the codebase, with an emphasis on code examples for various remote storage implementations. This included updates to the SyncedGetPutDelete component, improvements to the Dropbox backend, and adjustments to the file system implementation. Further, the user worked on adding a new webfinger format, adding tests to further enhance the quality of the project.
javascript-libraryoffline-capablejavascript-clientindexeddbsync
linkeddata/rdflib.js
Jan 2020 - May 2021
Linked Data API for JavaScript
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 49 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Michiel primarily contributes to the rdflib.js project by fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the fetcher module. They refactored code related to the storage and handling of requested URIs, switching between string and node representations based on specific needs. They integrated JSON-LD parsing capabilities, improving the library's ability to handle various data formats. Furthermore, the user addressed minor code errors such as typos.
json-ldapidata-apidatalinked-data
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