Niels Van Der Zanden
Software Engineer at Phusion (www.phusion.nl)
Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNiels Van Der Zanden is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building monitoring and analytics applications, currently focused on integrating observability features with Phusion's Passenger. He works across the stack using Ruby, Rails, Polymer, Docker, and MongoDB, bringing practical engineering to production-grade tooling. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, he combines formal studies in Telematics and Computer Science with a long-running hands-on practice in web and system-level software. Colleagues would describe him as someone who bridges developer ergonomics and operational reliability, crafting developer-facing insights rather than just raw metrics.
11 years of coding experience
-, Telematics, -, Telematics at University of TwenteBICT, Computer Science, BICT, Computer Science at Saxion Hogeschool EnschedeGymnasium, Gymnasium at Veluws College Walterbosch
Github Skills (98)
ruby-client10
passenger10
s610
monitoring9
api9
database9
ubuntu9
jwt-authentication9
docker-machine9
application-server9
react9
hydrogen9
appserver9
cookie9
nodejs9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
scarhand/devise-jwt-cookie
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Cookie-based JWT authentication for devise
Contributions:2 releases, 16 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years
authenticationcookiejwt-authenticationdevisejwt
scarhand/st-lucide
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
Feather icons as StencilJS components
Contributions:9 releases, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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