Rob Quist
Owner at DukeSoft
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarRob Quist is an experienced software engineer and founder with 13 years in the industry, currently running DukeSoft from the Randstad region in the Netherlands. He brings hands-on backend expertise, demonstrated by contributions to the high-profile Filecoin Lotus project where he improved logging, debugging, and error display to make distributed storage operations more observable and reliable. Comfortable in production Go codebases, Rob focuses on pragmatic improvements—reducing noisy logs, surfacing worker assignment and retrieval deal details, and polishing templates—to ease real-world maintenance and troubleshooting. His blend of entrepreneurial ownership and deep technical attention to observability makes him adept at turning complex distributed systems issues into actionable, developer-friendly solutions.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
golang10
debugging10
error-handling10
logging10
filecoin10
go10
blockchain10
api-design9
code-optimization9
php6
simple-xml6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
filecoin-project/lotus
Jun 2020 - Sep 2022
Reference implementation of the Filecoin protocol, written in Go
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 18 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on improving the logging and debugging capabilities of the Filecoin project. Their contributions include reducing the noise in various logs (drand, markets, retrieval), adding more informative details (worker assignment, retrieval deal information), and fixing typos. They also made modifications to the codebase related to vanilla proof generation and compute state calculations to improve error display and HTML template formatting.
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GameMakerHub/extended-functions
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 7 pushes in 6 months
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