Rick Van Dam
IT-manager at Pels Rijcken
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarRick Van Dam is an IT manager based in The Hague with nine years of experience bridging hands-on backend development and operational leadership. At Pels Rijcken he oversees IT while maintaining an active engineering mindset, contributing code to open-source projects that emphasize performance and robustness. His work on integrating and modernizing an IoC container for a .NET performance benchmark shows deep familiarity with dependency injection, ASP.NET Core, and complex adapter patterns. Contributions to a 2D game engine demonstrate attention to low-level engine reliability, texture handling, and physics testing—skills that translate to resilient production systems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic problem-solving that balances maintainability with practical configuration and dependency updates. He combines managerial responsibility with a developer’s focus on testing and clean integration.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
application-framework10
game-engine10
net10
app-framework10
dotnet10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
web-framework10
csharp10
game-dev9
spring-ioc9
testing9
benchmark9
benchmarking9
game-development9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
AdamsLair/duality
Jan 2017 - Sep 2020
a 2D Game Development Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:116 commits, 125 PRs, 150 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rick contributed to the 2D game development framework by addressing core engine functionality. They improved texture handling, specifically initializing new textures to a usable size and adding a necessary reload function. Furthermore, they added a unit test for simple rigid body physics simulation, demonstrating their focus on engine robustness and testing. Finally, the user fixed a bug in rigid body picking for shapes.
2d-gamec-sharpgame-enginegame-developmentgamedev
danielpalme/IocPerformance
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Performance comparison of .NET IoC containers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rick's primary contribution involves integrating and updating the Singularity IoC container into the project, as evidenced by multiple commits introducing and updating the corresponding adapter. They adapted the container to meet the project's needs, including support for ASP.NET Core, generic types, and multiple registrations. The user also made changes to the project's dependencies and configuration files to accommodate the Singularity library and its updates.
dotnetioc-containerbenchmarkioc
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