Miquel Van Smoorenburg
Senior Network Automation Engineer
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMiquel Van Smoorenburg is a Senior Network Automation Engineer based in Amsterdam with 28 years of experience blending Unix expertise, network design, and systems programming. He has led large-scale network rebuilds and low-latency BGP peering projects, moved infrastructure to 100G EVPN fabrics, and now applies automation at Adyen while maintaining long-standing contributions to Debian. A pragmatic polyglot developer—Rust, Go, C, Python, and JS—he’s known for rewriting critical tools for major performance gains and for authoring foundational utilities like liblockfile and sysvinit. He co-founded Cistron, spent nearly two decades shaping XS4ALL’s network, and carries a rare mix of hands-on ops, firmware-level curiosity, and open-source stewardship. Notably, he performed an early Debian port to the Alpha in the mid-1990s, reflecting deep roots in Unix portability and platform work.
28 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
propadeuse, electrical engineering, computer science, propadeuse, electrical engineering, computer science at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Spanish, English, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (181)
actix-web10
ubuntu10
hyper10
javascript10
mount10
in-progress10
io-uring10
linux10
debian-packaging10
warp10
rust10
webdav10
spool10
vue10
golang-server10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
miquels/speedtest
Jan 2017 - May 2021
HTML5 speedtest, javascript client and golang server. Responsive interface, can be used on desktop, tablets and phones. Uses the same algorithm as Ookla / speedtest.net, and gives approximately the same results.
Contributions:54 commits, 14 PRs, 40 pushes in 4 years 4 months
golangookla-speedtesttabletsphonesjavascript-client
miquels/webdav-handler-rs
Feb 2018 - May 2021
webdav handler library for hyper, warp, actix-web or anything that can interface using the 'http' crate.
Contributions:306 commits, 2 PRs, 75 pushes in 3 years 3 months
craterustwarpactix-webserver
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