Nico Rikken
Senior DevOps Consultant at Alliander
Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolNico Rikken is a Senior DevOps Consultant with 11 years of experience who blends an electrical engineering background from TU Eindhoven with pragmatic software and cloud infrastructure expertise. Based in Arnhem, he supports energy-sector innovation at Alliander, spanning IT/OT/IoT, analytics and DevOps while driving the company’s OSPO efforts. An active open source ambassador and FSFE Netherlands Country Coordinator, he contributes practical fixes and feature additions to notable projects like JupyterHub and the REUSE tool, improving security, file support and maintainability. He values facts, honesty and Agile practices, and brings a hands-on systems mindset that connects low-level electrical concerns with scalable software operations. Colleagues rely on him to translate regulatory and engineering constraints into auditable, reproducible solutions that work in production.
11 years of coding experience
MsC, Electrical Engineering, MsC, Electrical Engineering at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
French, German, English, Dutch
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
licensing10
jupyterhub10
python10
analyzer10
filetype10
file-conversion10
file-operations10
file-format10
fileio10
file-handling10
linter10
back-end-development9
html-template9
documentation9
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
fsfe/reuse-tool
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
reuse is a tool for compliance with the REUSE recommendations.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 37 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Nico Rikken primarily contributed to enhancing the `reuse-tool` project's functionality, focusing on file format support for the `addheader` command. They implemented support for various file types, including Jenkinsfile, .coveragerc, .ipynb, .svg, .csv, sonar-project.properties, .bashrc, .xsd, .kts, CODEOWNERS, less, and ansible.cfg. Additionally, they corrected a file name in the project and improved the scripts documentation and xargs calls.
licensinglinterpythonsecuritysbom
jupyterhub/jupyterhub
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 18 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Nico primarily focused on improving the user interface and backend logic related to user management within the JupyterHub environment. Their contributions included fixing vulnerabilities in how usernames were handled in frontend code, and updating the code to use `encodeURIComponent()` instead of `escape()`. They also worked on modifications to the template files and handler files, and refactored existing code to improve performance and maintainability.
pythonjupyter-notebooknotebooksjupytermulti-user
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.