Patrick Van Staveren
Self Employed at Self-employed
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPatrick Van Staveren is a seasoned software and systems engineer with 20 years of experience who blends hands-on technical depth with people-first leadership, most recently serving as SVP of Infrastructure and Support and now operating as a self-employed consultant. He has led global IT infrastructure teams through large datacenter migrations, office expansions, and team growth across London, Chicago and APAC, consistently focusing on reliability, automation, and continuous delivery. Comfortable with both low-level systems work and strategic planning, he also advises on pragmatic AI strategy and training where it actually moves the business forward. An active open-source contributor, he improved C# bindings for the widely used libgphoto2 camera library, demonstrating attention to robustness and resource management. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he pairs a formal CS and Math background with a hands-on maker spirit—photography and high-altitude ballooning inform a curiosity that drives creative technical solutions.
20 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Batchelor of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Batchelor of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics at Western Michigan University
Chinese
Github Skills (4)
csharp10
dotnet-core10
error-handling9
memory-management8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gphoto/libgphoto2
May 2006 - Aug 2006
The libgphoto2 camera access and control library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Patrick contributed to the C# bindings for the libgphoto2 library, implementing features related to port types, mime types, and error codes. They added support for disk and PTPIP port types and updated mime types to match gphoto2-file.h. The user also corrected error codes and adjusted code to safely dispose of objects and handle the garbage collection, demonstrating their focus on improving the library's functionality and robustness.
camerausbaccesscanonlibgphoto2
trickv/vyos-buildbox-vagrant
May 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
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.