Sander Van Beek
Quality Engineer at Rabobank
Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSander Van Beek is a pragmatic Quality Engineer with nine years of experience helping Dutch financial and service organisations raise software quality through a user-focused, technically strong approach. He blends hands-on test automation and consultancy—working at Rabobank and Bartosz—with practical contributions to open-source (notably improving robustness and test coverage for the pytradfri IKEA lights library). Comfortable in cross-functional test teams, he translates product insight into actionable testing strategies that improve reliability and usability. Trained in Communication & Multimedia Design, he pairs analytical testing skills with an eye for user interaction, ensuring technology delivers meaningful outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Communication and Multimedia Design, Bachelor’s Degree Communication and Multimedia Design at Avans University of Applied SciencesHavo Nature & Technique, Havo Nature & Technique at Carmel College Gouda
Dutch, English
Github Skills (8)
api10
pytest10
python10
apidoc10
asyncio10
unit-testing9
iot9
home-automation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant-libs/pytradfri
Jan 2018 - May 2018
IKEA Trådfri/Tradfri API. Control and observe your lights from Python. Examples available. On pypi. Sans-io.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 86 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sander primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the `pytradfri` library, specifically concerning lamp value ranges and PSK handling. They added validation to lamp values, simplified mired handling, and addressed issues related to security code management in the examples. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the test suite, adding tests for various light settings and branch coverage. These changes collectively improved the library's usability, stability, and testability.
available-on-pypipythonpypisans-ioprofanity
Lakitna/cli-diagram
Feb 2020 - Dec 2021
Draw needlessly complex diagrams in the console
Contributions:3 releases, 42 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 10 months
diagramssvgconsoledrawdiagram
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