Sander Van Der Burg
Senior Software Engineer at Mendix
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSander Van Der Burg is a Senior Software Engineer and researcher with 18 years of experience who blends academic rigor (PhD work at TU Delft) with hands-on production delivery at Mendix and earlier at Conference Compass. He specializes in reliable continuous integration and deployment for large-scale, heterogeneous systems—having built Disnix and applied Nix/NixOps to automate deployment of hundreds of microservices and ~100 mobile apps per year. An active open-source contributor to NixOS and the principal developer of the IFF file formats project, he frequently bridges industry, academia and community through tools, papers and a technical blog. Uncommonly for an engineer, he pairs deep deployment tool expertise with practice in mobile, web, DevOps and even musical performance as a percussionist.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B. ICT, Software Engineering, B. ICT, Software Engineering at Rotterdam University of Applied SciencesM.Sc., Software Evolution, M.Sc., Software Evolution at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English
Github Skills (12)
perl10
nix10
build-automation10
devops9
configuration-management9
systemd9
shell8
script8
sh8
testing8
scripting8
continuous-integration8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
NixOS/hydra
Mar 2013 - Apr 2016
Hydra, the Nix-based continuous build system
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sander implemented and tested support for quoted strings in file names within the build process, enhancing the robustness of the build system. They also added test files to ensure the correct behavior of build products with spaces in their names. Furthermore, they ported and merged configuration properties related to the Hydra module and fixed an issue with build delegation to localhost related to the PATH.
nixoscontinuoushydrabuild-system
svanderburg/node2nix
Sep 2014 - Jan 2023
Generate Nix expressions to build NPM packages
Contributions:15 releases, 1 review, 262 commits in 8 years 5 months
nix-expressionsnixosnodejsexpressionsnpm
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