Pieter Van Der Meulen
Technical Product Manager at SURFnet
Arnhem-Nijmegen Region Netherlands
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Top SchoolPieter Van Der Meulen is a Technical Product Manager at SURFnet with 14 years of experience building and operating identity and collaboration infrastructure for the Dutch higher education and research community. He leads the technical management of SURFconext, a federated identity and group-authorization platform, combining deep product ownership with hands-on engineering. Earlier he led software development at A.E.T., designing smart card and digital identity solutions for government, finance and industry customers. Pieter continues to write and review code—contributing tests and fixes to the widely used SimpleSAMLphp project—bringing an engineer’s attention to reliability and backward compatibility. He holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Twente and blends applied cryptography, architecture and pragmatic product strategy to deliver secure, auditable services.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at Universiteit Twente
English, Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (7)
authentication10
php10
user-authentication10
saml10
testing10
phpunit9
twig8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp
May 2016 - Dec 2017
SimpleSAMLphp is an application written in native PHP that deals with authentication.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Pieter primarily contributed to the testing and enhancement of the SimpleSAMLphp authentication application. They implemented test cases for the SAML authentication process, specifically focusing on passing "state" options and verifying the generation of AuthnRequests. Additionally, the user modified the code to include the option to set a Subject NameID in SAML AuthnRequests and fixed minor issues, demonstrating a strong focus on improving the application's functionality and robustness. Furthermore, they addressed PHP 5.3 compatibility issues and updated error page templates.
securityphpauthenticationsaml2saml
pmeulen/ansible-tools
Nov 2015 - Dec 2018
Ansible Playbook starting point for working with multiple environments. Integrates Vagrant and keyczar
Contributions:22 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
vagrantstarting-pointansiblepointansible-role
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