Pieter Van De Sande
Senior Product Lead at Visionisers
Harderwijk, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorPieter Van De Sande is a hands-on senior product lead and software architect with 16 years of experience designing message-based and distributed systems, now shaping data and product strategy at Deloitte. He blends practical coding with elegant architecture, favoring statically typed languages like C# while exploring JVM and Go to understand trade-offs. An active community builder and speaker—recognized as a Microsoft MVP—he has run a popular development podcast, organized meetups, and contributed to well-known open-source projects such as FoundationDB Go bindings and NEventStore. His contributions often improve testability and extensibility (for example adding redirect handling to node-oauth and exposing internals in NEventStore), showing a knack for making libraries more robust and integrable. Based in Harderwijk, Netherlands, he pairs deep technical craft with product leadership, often surfacing subtle improvements that reduce friction for other developers.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (52)
foundationdb10
unit-testing10
context-manager10
matcher10
javascript10
key-value-store10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
context-api10
object-oriented-programming10
ui-design10
event-sourcing10
mongodb-database10
acid10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
pjvds/ncqrs
Feb 2010 - Aug 2016
Ncqrs Framework - The CQRS Framework for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:732 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Pieter's contributions focused on the sample application's user interface (UI) development. They modified the CSS and added a "Welcome" page and a "NoMessageFound" view for better user experience. The user also refactored and added new features, such as the ability to edit and display the user's message including their past versions.
dotnetdddevent-sourcingcqrscqrs-framework
apple/foundationdb
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Pieter focused on enhancing the Go bindings for the FoundationDB key-value store. Their contributions include documenting and refining the `KeyRange` structure, implementing the `fmt.Stringer` interface for `fdb.Key`, `tuple.Tuple` and `subspace.Subspace` to improve debugging and usability. They also improved the formatting of key representations and addressed minor bugs, contributing to the overall developer experience. Finally, the user introduced error documentation in the directory layer.
bigtabletransactionaldistributed-databasefoundationdbdatabase
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