Rutger Van Bergen is a seasoned CTO with over a decade of leadership delivering cloud-native, productized software and global digital loyalty platforms, including deployments in mainland China. He combines C-level strategic vision with hands-on engineering and coaching, having led replatforming to Azure containers, CI/CD and automated QA across multiple organizations. Comfortable across architecture, delivery and operations, he has deep practical experience in embedded and IoT projects—contributing to notable open-source work like the cc65 6502 C compiler and ESP32 NightDriver client. Known for translating complex business requirements into pragmatic, auditable solutions, he pairs a CISSP-backed security mindset with a retro-computing tinkerer’s curiosity that traces back to programming at age nine.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary school diploma, Atheneum, Secondary school diploma, Atheneum at Oosterlicht College
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Networking, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Networking at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
CISSP, Information System Security, CISSP, Information System Security at ISC2
Contributions:7 releases, 367 reviews, 74 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Rutger primarily contributed to the ESP32-based "NightDriver" client, focusing on embedded systems development. Their commits include modifications to the code's core functionalities and definitions. These changes involved adjusting configurations for the LED strip, including color order and display options, and network settings. The user also fixed a spelling error, which indicates their attention to detail.
Prime number projects in 100+ programming languages, to compare their speed - and their programmer's cleverness
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:662 reviews, 209 commits, 663 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Rutger contributed to the "primes" repository with code modifications. The primary focus appears to be related to prime number projects, given the repository's description. Specific details of the user's actions involve adding to the correct source branch and making small textual fixes within a Mixal file, which is likely related to the implementation of prime number algorithms in the project.
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