Rik Van Der Kleij
Senior Developer at Dreamsolution
Beilen, Drenthe, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRik Van Der Kleij is a Senior Developer with 12 years of professional software experience and a background in physics from the University of Amsterdam, blending analytical rigor with pragmatic engineering. Based in Beilen, Netherlands, he has progressed from core Java roles at TomTom and Marktplaats to senior Scala and architectural positions, now leading development at Dreamsolution. He specializes in functional languages—Scala and Haskell—and has contributed significantly to the IntelliJ Haskell plugin, improving compilation integration, code completion, Hoogle support and HLint configuration. His career shows a steady shift from enterprise Java systems and web application security toward language tooling and backend optimization. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented problem solver who brings scientific curiosity to production-grade software design. He often surfaces non-obvious improvements in developer tooling that meaningfully speed up team productivity.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Drs., Physics, Drs., Physics at University of Amsterdam
Github Skills (6)
haskell10
intellij-plugin10
ghci10
code-completion9
type-inference8
error-handling8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rikvdkleij/intellij-haskell
Jul 2014 - Jun 2022
IntelliJ plugin for Haskell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:105 releases, 2 reviews, 1545 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Rik was actively involved in the development of the IntelliJ plugin for Haskell. They focused on implementing compilation results, fixing issues, and configuring settings for the Haskell tool, HLint. Their work also included optimizations for code completion and the integration of Hoogle. The user contributed to the core functionality of the plugin, ensuring that the code interacted well with the toolchain.
haskellstackjetbrains-pluginintellij-pluginintellij
rikvdkleij/quicksort
Jan 2014 - Apr 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 8 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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