Roderick Van Domburg
Deputy Project Director F126 at Thales
Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRoderick Van Domburg is a multidisciplinary engineering leader with 12 years of hands-on experience bridging systems engineering, program delivery and open-source audio software. Currently Deputy Project Director for Thales’ F126 program, he orchestrates multinational teams and complex supply chains to deliver mission systems for advanced frigates while exercising project director authority across the lifecycle. His background ranges from weapons engineering in the Royal Netherlands Navy to leading large engineering units in energy and infrastructure, giving him uncommon operational discipline in safety-critical programs. As an active open-source contributor from the Netherlands, he brings deep audio and backend expertise—improving librespot, moOde and nzbToMedia with high-resolution audio handling, volume normalization and robust subtitle/transcoding fixes. Roderick combines systems thinking with a developer’s attention to detail, treating organizational problems as design problems and systematically fixing the integration points others miss.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Business & IT, Master of Science Business & IT at University of TwenteWeapons Engineering Officer, Weapons Engineering Officer at Koninklijk Instituut voor de Marine (KIM)
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (20)
debug10
python10
audio-processing10
ffmpeg10
spotify-api10
integrations10
php10
transcoding10
subtitle10
text-processing10
rust10
spotify10
command-line-interface9
n9
alsa9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
librespot-org/librespot
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Open Source Spotify client library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 346 reviews, 2 commits in 17 days
Contributions summary:Roderick's commits primarily focus on enhancing the audio backend of the "librespot" project. The user implemented command-line options to control the audio format (F32 or S16) for various backends, with specific handling for the Alsa and Rodio backends. They also introduced high-resolution volume control and normalisation features by storing and processing samples in 64-bit arithmetic and added a dynamic limiter with configurable parameters to improve sound quality. The commits show improvements in handling of audio stream output.
librespotrustclient-libraryspotifyspotify-connect
moode-player/moode
Jan 2021 - Oct 2021
moOde sources and configs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 14 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Roderick primarily focused on improving the audio experience of the moOde player by addressing and improving Spotify integration. Their work included fixing crossfeed functionality, enhancing crossfeed settings, and improving Spotify normalization. They also updated the player to support librespot version 0.3.0, incorporating new features like dithering options, cubic volume control, and volume range adjustments.
configsconfigsources
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