Nils Gruson
Senior Solution Engineer at Coöperatie DELA
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNils Gruson is a Senior Solution Engineer based in Rotterdam with nearly two decades of software experience and a focused 8-year trajectory in .NET and C# backend and frontend development. He combines hands-on coding and architecture skills—especially in integration platforms like BizTalk—with a strong track record of coaching teams and improving CI/CD practices across enterprise clients in Europe. Nils has repeatedly driven migrations and platform decisions, shaping cross-cutting concerns such as loose coupling, logging and monitoring for large organizations. He also contributes to high-profile open-source efforts like the OpenTelemetry .NET client, where he strengthened ASP.NET Core instrumentation tests and diagnostics to improve reliability. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he excels at turning complex integration requirements into maintainable, production-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Bedrijfskundige Informatica, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Bedrijfskundige Informatica at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
Github Skills (10)
opentelemetry10
asp-net10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
xunit10
dotnet-core10
testing10
distributed-tracing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet
Nov 2023 - Jan 2024
The OpenTelemetry .NET Client
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 17 PRs, 25 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nils primarily contributed to improving the test suite for the OpenTelemetry .NET client, specifically focusing on the ASP.NET Core instrumentation library. The commits involved refactoring tests to use a test host, which simplifies test setup and execution. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to exception handling and diagnostic source events within the ASP.NET Core instrumentation, ensuring accurate monitoring. The contributions focused on enhancing the reliability and coverage of the existing tests.
instrumentation-librariesiloggerprovidertracingloggingilogger
ngruson/LeagueManager
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:34 PRs, 124 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year
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