Ruben Van Dijk
Lead Software Engineer at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRuben Van Dijk is a Lead Software Engineer at KLM with a decade of hands-on experience building resilient backend and integration systems that keep complex operations running smoothly. He blends full-stack craftsmanship with a practical focus on team productivity, championing best practices, experimentation, and knowledge sharing to raise product quality. His background in AI (BSc/MSc) and early HPC work at the University of Groningen gives him a methodical approach to tooling and performance-sensitive environments. Ruben contributes to open-source build tooling, having fixed intricate environment-related build failures in EasyBuild’s easyblocks—evidence of his attention to reproducible builds and scientific software workflows. Based in The Hague, he brings energy to technical discussions and a knack for turning operational constraints into pragmatic engineering trade-offs. Outside work he signals an active, outdoorsy mindset that complements his disciplined, systems-oriented engineering style.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ichthus College KampenBachelor of Science (BSc), Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Artificial Intelligence at Rijksuniversiteit GroningenHigh School, Physics and mathematics, High School, Physics and mathematics at VAVO Zwolle
English, Dutch, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
python10
perl9
hpc8
scilab8
scite8
linux7
pandas6
sqlalchemy6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Collection of easyblocks that implement support for building and installing software with EasyBuild.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ruben primarily contributed to the `easybuild-easyblocks` repository by modifying Perl module build processes. Their work involved unsetting environment variables that caused build failures and subsequently reverting the changes. They also implemented the use of a function for unsetting environment variables and updated a PETSc build file. The user demonstrated a focus on build system configuration and resolving software installation issues within the context of HPC and scientific software.
pythoninstallinglinuxscientific-softwarehpc
rug-cit-hpc/easybuild-easyconfigs
Apr 2016 - Aug 2018
A collection of easyconfig files that describe which software to build using which build options with EasyBuild.
Contributions:5 PRs, 516 pushes, 377 branches in 2 years 4 months
easyconfigoptionsdescribeeasybuild
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