Sander Rijken
Software Architect at SDB Groep
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSander Rijken is a seasoned Software Architect with over 21 years of experience designing and delivering backend systems across the Netherlands’ Randstad region. He progressed from long-term consultancy and development roles into technical leadership and architecture at SDB Groep, where he recently transitioned from Lead Developer to Software Architect. A pragmatic engineer and test automation practitioner, Sander has contributed meaningful tests and build fixes to the widely used Exceptionless .NET client, including work on exception handling, serialization edge cases, and deduplication via hashing. He pairs hands-on coding and CI/NuGet tooling knowledge with a systems-level view, helping teams turn complex error-prone features into reliable, test-covered services. Outside of software he pursues photography professionally, reflecting a creative eye that informs his disciplined approach to system design.
21 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
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Github Skills (31)
unit-testing10
svn10
net10
dotnet10
xunit10
asp-net10
parallel-processing10
exception-handling10
visual-studio10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
exceptionless/Exceptionless.Net
Apr 2015 - Jun 2018
Exceptionless clients for the .NET platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:63 commits, 10 PRs, 38 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sander primarily contributed by adding test cases to the `Exceptionless.net` project, focusing on testing various scenarios involving exceptions, particularly `AggregateException` and deserialization of reference IDs. These tests involved modifications to the `ToErrorModelTests.cs` and `SerializerTests.cs` files. Additionally, the user made a series of commits related to the NuGet tools and build process, potentially fixing issues and integrating the project with different platforms. The user also addressed a deduplication issue by introducing a hash based approach.
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competencegroup/Tcg.Owin.Cookies.SessionStore
Dec 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:11 releases, 5 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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