Mitchell Olsthoorn
Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology
Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMitchell Olsthoorn is an Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology with 11 years of experience specializing in security testing and software engineering research. He bridges academia and hands-on engineering as a member of CISELab and the Delft Blockchain Lab, supervising theses, reviewing for top conferences, and managing a multi-node research server cluster. His PhD work and postdoctoral projects focused on automated testing for complex systems, including blockchain validation and RESTful API test generation. Mitchell has contributed to prominent open-source tooling by streamlining large-scale EvoSuite experiments, improving automation and resource controls for parallel test execution. Based in the Netherlands, he combines extensive teaching experience for cohorts of hundreds with a practical knack for experiment infrastructure that accelerates reproducible security testing.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
TU DelftDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Software Engineering at Delft University of TechnologyVWO, Nature & Health (NG) and Nature & Technology (NT), VWO, Nature & Health (NG) and Nature & Technology (NT) at Oosterlicht College
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (14)
sh10
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script10
bash10
shell10
scripting10
testing9
e-mail6
activation6
webserver6
zend-framework6
php6
symfony6
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
EvoSuite/evosuite
May 2020 - Aug 2021
EvoSuite - automated generation of JUnit test suites for Java classes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:27 commits, 4 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Mitchell primarily focused on creating and refining a script to run large-scale experiments within the EvoSuite project. They introduced a script to automate the execution of EvoSuite configurations across multiple parallel instances. The user made several iterations, including renaming variables, removing features like random ordering, adding memory controls, and fixing directory structures for results, to optimize the experiment execution process. The primary focus was on streamlining the automated testing and experimental setup.
javajunit-test
syntest-framework/syntest-www
Oct 2020 - Mar 2023
Website for the SynTest framework
Contributions:1 review, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
syntest-frameworksyntest
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