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.
11 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 (62)
vs-extension10
vsix10
decompiler10
msbuild-task10
dotnet10
java10
decompile10
grammar10
windows-forms10
php10
mono10
visual-studio-extension10
visual-studio10
parsing10
pdb10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
X-Sharp/SHFB
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 11 months
dotnetmsbuildguibuilderstandalone
X-Sharp/XSharpDev
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
XSharp Repository for the Compiler source code. The source code for the runtime, tools and vs integration can be found at https://github.com/X-Sharp/XSharpPublic
Contributions:20 releases, 1 review, 5005 commits in 7 years 5 months
compiler
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