Rob Caelers
Senior Design Engineer at ASML
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRob Caelers is a Senior Design Engineer based in Eindhoven with 23 years of experience blending software architecture, embedded systems design and DevOps practices across high-tech and healthcare-adjacent projects. At ASML he applies systems-level engineering rigor, and for two decades he has led the open-source Workrave project, improving build automation, cross-platform CI and Windows installer generation. His background as a software architect at Philips TASS, TASS Technology Solutions and Altran underpins strong design-for-maintainability and tooling expertise. Rob holds advanced computing degrees from Eindhoven University of Technology and is notable for tackling practical developer ergonomics—helping prevent RSI while also streamlining build and release pipelines.
23 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MTD, OOTI - Post graduate Computer Science, MTD, OOTI - Post graduate Computer Science at Eindhoven University of TechnologyPhilips van Horne
Github Skills (10)
bash10
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
build-automation9
automated-build9
build-system9
cmake9
windows9
code-coverage7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rcaelers/workrave
Sep 2002 - Jan 2023
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:34 releases, 5 reviews, 4522 commits in 20 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Rob's commits primarily focused on the Workrave build process, specifically integrating Docker and Travis CI for automated testing and building on Linux and Windows platforms. They addressed build issues, fixed compilation errors, and added the ability to generate and upload Windows installers. These changes involved updating the build scripts, managing dependencies and generating catalog entries, indicating a strong focus on DevOps practices.
preventionstrainalertsrecoveryrest
rcaelers/nrf-beacon
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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