Rick Van Der Heijden
Senior Software Engineer at Siemens Healthineers
Beek en Donk, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRick Van Der Heijden is a Senior Software Engineer based in Beek en Donk, Netherlands, with over a decade of hands-on experience building reliable software for healthcare enterprises. He has progressed through engineering and design roles at Philips Healthcare and now contributes to Siemens Healthineers, blending deep domain knowledge with practical system design. His strengths include stabilizing and optimizing core back-end components—evidenced by contributions to the ZeroMQ core where he improved proxy correctness, termination behavior, and CPU efficiency while adding tests. Rick excels at turning tricky edge cases into robust, testable solutions and is comfortable working close to the system level in C++ and distributed messaging contexts. He brings a pragmatic, quality-focused approach to long-lived systems in regulated environments, often spotting subtle issues before they reach production.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Fontys Hogescholen
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
zeromq10
mq10
cprogramming-language10
messaging10
networking10
concurrency10
testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zeromq/libzmq
Apr 2015 - Apr 2017
ZeroMQ core engine in C++, implements ZMTP/3.1
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Rick primarily focused on improving the stability and correctness of the ZeroMQ proxy implementation. Their commits addressed issues related to proxy termination, CPU utilization, and the handling of `ZMQ_RCVMORE`. The contributions include bug fixes, performance optimizations, and adding tests to validate the changes, ensuring the proxy functions correctly under various scenarios. The work directly involved the core `proxy.cpp` file and testing files related to proxy behavior.
concurrencyzeromqnetworkingstreampushpull
rikvdh/go-stlink
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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