Robert Lippens
Software Engineering Consultant at Sirrus7
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Lippens is a software engineering consultant with a decade of experience bridging front-end and back-end development, grounded in a mathematics and physics degree. He has led adoption of modern JavaScript tooling and frameworks—React, Redux, Webpack, Babel, and ES6—while delivering production websites and AB testing platforms. His open-source contributions span UI work (Vault-UI) and significant backend/cloud engineering for HashiCorp's widely used Terraform Azure provider, adding features like Key Vault certificate handling and Firewall NAT rule collections. Comfortable across C#, Java, Python, Ruby, and cloud services (AWS, Azure), he combines rigorous analytical thinking with practical, full-stack delivery. Known for mentoring and process automation early in his career, he still explores compile-to-JS languages like Elm in spare time.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Physics, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Physics at Western Washington University
English, Korean, German, Vietnamese
Stackoverflow
29reputation
4kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (29)
javascript10
cloud-infrastructure10
material-ui10
microsoft-azure10
ui-design10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
azure-resource-manager10
terraformer10
go10
resource-manager10
arm10
azure10
react10
apidoc9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
djenriquez/vault-ui
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Vault-UI — A beautiful UI to manage your Vault, written in React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 16 PRs, 26 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert focused on developing the user interface for the Vault-UI project. Their contributions included the initial setup of the React application, integrating Material-UI components, and implementing features like a login screen with authentication token input and settings dialogs. Further contributions included adding a health check page and building a secrets page with the ability to list and manage secrets. The user also worked on UI styling, including adding animations and adjusting the layout.
reactvaulthashicorpvault-uibeautiful-ui
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 41 commits, 43 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Terraform provider, specifically focusing on enhancements and bug fixes for various Azure services. They added functionality for features such as Key Vault certificate handling, exposing keys and account URLs for Azure Batch, and incorporating properties for Azure Application Gateway WAF. The user also improved the data source for storage accounts and added IotHub IP filter functionality. Additionally, they added support for zone resilient property in Image resource, and implemented a new resource for Firewall NAT rule collections.
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managerterraformterraform-provider
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