Michiel Eggermont
Senior Software Engineer at The Dutch Postcode Lottery
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMichiel Eggermont is a senior software engineer based in Amsterdam with 13 years of professional experience building and maintaining robust production systems and leading teams to deliver measurable software value. He combines hands-on development, architectural design and technical project leadership, preferring on-site team coaching but experienced in distributed settings. His background spans research-driven numerical simulation to enterprise product engineering at BloomReach and The Dutch Postcode Lottery, giving him a rare blend of scientific rigor and practical delivery focus. He contributes to open-source concurrency tooling—improving reliability and testability in the clj-commons/manifold executor—showing deep understanding of multithreading and test robustness. Known for turning requirements into maintainable, long-lived software, he emphasizes quality, operability and clear technical ownership. With an academic grounding in mechanical engineering and a history of applied research, he brings analytical problem-solving to complex software and systems challenges.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
ir, Mechanical engineering, ir, Mechanical engineering at University of Twente
Github Skills (8)
asynchronous10
clojure10
clojure-cli10
async10
concurrency10
testing10
stream-processing9
future8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
clj-commons/manifold
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
A compatibility layer for event-driven abstractions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Michiel focused on improving the reliability and testability of the `manifold` library's executor functionality, which is used for asynchronous operations. They addressed thread pool behavior, ensuring thread factories were correctly utilized, and made the tests more robust by replacing potentially problematic `execute` calls with `isShutdown` checks. Furthermore, the user refined the test suite to simplify thread pool size assertions, demonstrating a deep understanding of the library's internal concurrency mechanisms.
non-blockingstream-processingstreamscompatibility-layerstream
meggermo/waterwaves
Nov 2017 - Apr 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 5 months
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