Robert Van Der Hulst
President at Heliks Software/Consult
Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Van Der Hulst is a veteran Dutch software engineer and entrepreneur with over three decades of hands-on experience in bespoke application, compiler and database development, currently serving as President of XSharp BV. He co-founded the XSharp project, driving a modern xBase language for .NET while maintaining deep expertise across C, C++, C#, Visual Objects, Vulcan.NET, assembler and SQL. His career blends product leadership and low-level engineering—from kernel and compiler work to integration with accounting systems and enterprise databases—often shipping commercial developer tools like Vo2Ado and Vo2Jet. Longstanding independent consultant at Heliks, he repeatedly bridges legacy systems and modern platforms, a skill reflected in migrations of Visual Objects to .NET. Based in Gelderland, he pairs pragmatic business-facing solutions with niche technical craftsmanship, including assembler-level and compiler internals few senior leaders still practice.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Drs. Orthopedagogiek, Social Sciences, Drs. Orthopedagogiek, Social Sciences at Rijksuniversiteit GroningenAtheneum B, Atheneum B at Jacobus College, EnschedeBaak Nieuw Elan & Perspectief
Dutch, English, German, French
Github Skills (84)
nuget10
parser10
decompiler10
winforms10
metadata10
decompile10
csproj10
visual-studio10
pdb10
cpp10
javascript10
msbuild-task10
dotnet10
sqf10
windows-forms10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
X-Sharp/XSharpPublic
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
Public repository for the source code for the XSharp Compiler, Runtime, Project System and Tools.
Contributions:20 releases, 4225 commits, 139 PRs in 7 years 1 month
compilerspublic-repositoryxsharp-runtimex-comjit
X-Sharp/SHFB
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 11 months
dotnetmsbuildguibuilderstandalone
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