Rob Thijssen
Bansko, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolRob Thijssen is a seasoned DevOps engineer and technical architect with 13+ years of experience building and scaling CI/CD platforms for large enterprises, currently driving infrastructure and automation at Mozilla. He excels at coaching teams in Agile/lean practices and creating maintainable orchestration tooling—from scripts to full platforms—having migrated Windows CI to cloud-based EC2 and helped transition Buildbot to TaskCluster for Firefox at massive scale. Comfortable across languages and stacks (bash, Python, PowerShell, C#, Go, Rust), he combines deep Windows/.NET heritage with modern DevOps patterns and hands-on contributions to notable open-source projects like the polkadot-js UI and TaskCluster. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, operational visibility improvements, and mentoring; outside work he identifies as a cypherpunk, hinting at a privacy- and decentralization-oriented curiosity that informs his engagement with blockchain tooling.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Systems and Networks, BSc (Hons), Computer Systems and Networks at University of Plymouth
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Github Skills (36)
substrate10
continuous-integration10
cirrus-ci10
cli-framework10
circleci10
ui-design10
cicd10
gruntjs10
automation10
polkadot-js10
go10
blockchain10
automations10
ctf-framework10
polkadot10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
taskcluster/taskcluster
Sep 2016 - Dec 2020
CI at Scale
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on infrastructure and system-level improvements within the taskcluster project. Their contributions included modifying Windows platform-specific code to address shutdown delays and scheduled task priority issues. The user also implemented a change to display the worker type at the start of task logs, indicating involvement in operational visibility. Additionally, the grammar correction in the auth.js file suggests a minor contribution to API functionality.
engineersci-frameworkcontinuous-integrationcitaskcluster
polkadot-js/apps
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
Basic Polkadot/Substrate UI for interacting with a Polkadot and Substrate node. This is the main user-facing application, allowing access to all features available on Substrate chains.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the user-facing application of the Polkadot/Substrate UI. Their work focused on configuring and updating endpoints for various networks, specifically related to Calamari and Manta. They added, removed, and updated RPC providers and load-balanced URLs, ensuring the application correctly connected to and displayed data from these blockchain networks. The commits reflect a strong understanding of the application's configuration and the underlying infrastructure of these networks.
polkadotsubstratepolkadot-jsuiblockchain
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