Roy Van Dam
Freelance Engineer & Architect at Element 42
Elst, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRoy Van Dam is a freelance engineer and architect with 11+ years of hands-on and leadership experience translating concepts into embedded systems and cloud-ready products. He blends low-level expertise in Rust, C/C++20 and real-time OSes like Zephyr and FreeRTOS with cloud and build tooling proficiency (Bazel, gRPC, Linux), recently leading a large Rust migration tool at ASML. Comfortable straddling technical and commercial domains, he excels as a tech lead who stays close to the code to keep decisions practical and deliverable. His background spans industrial automation, semiconductor tooling and agricultural robotics, giving him a knack for making complex, safety- and time-critical systems production-ready. Based in the Netherlands, he offers hybrid freelance support from electronics to cloud and is known for turning high-tech prototypes into robust products while fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Pre Master, Embedded Systems Engineering, Pre Master, Embedded Systems Engineering at Eindhoven University of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Embedded Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Embedded Systems Engineering at HAN University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (73)
redis-streams10
redisai10
queue10
tar10
redisearch10
zip9
django9
rar9
7zip9
archiving9
message-queue9
unrar9
lzma9
websocket9
backup9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
royvandam/rtti
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 21 pushes in 1 year 9 months
royvandam/nucleo-f767zi-zephyr-mqtt-demo
Aug 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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