Stefan Van Der Meer
Senior Web Developer at Privacy Company
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Van Der Meer is a Senior Web Developer based in The Hague with 17 years of experience building reliable, security-minded web applications. With an MSc (cum laude) in Artificial Intelligence from Radboud University, he blends rigorous academic training with practical engineering across frontend and backend stacks. He has been a senior developer at Privacy Company since 2016 and held prior senior roles at Thauris and Pine Digital Security, delivering production-grade systems in privacy and security contexts. Stefan is an active open-source contributor, notably enhancing the popular Garry's Mod Trouble in Terrorist Town game mode with both client and server improvements, illustrating his comfort modifying live Lua-based systems. Colleagues describe him as detail-focused and pragmatic—equally at home fixing subtle UI bugs, preventing exploits, or adding extensible hooks to legacy codebases. He brings a rare mix of AI-informed thinking and long-term hands-on web development experience to complex product challenges.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc (cum laude), Artificial Intelligence, MSc (cum laude), Artificial Intelligence at Radboud University
Github Skills (6)
lua10
game-development10
back-end-development8
front-end-development8
backend8
source-engine7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Facepunch/garrysmod
Jan 2013 - May 2022
Sandbox mod for the Source Engine
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 199 commits, 268 PRs in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Stefan primarily worked on the "Trouble in Terrorist Town" (TTT) game mode, a sandbox mod for the Source Engine, contributing to both client-side and server-side code. Their commits involved bug fixes, such as correcting UI issues and preventing exploits. They also implemented new features like crosshair and player color customization and added hooks to extend the functionality of the game mode. The user demonstrated experience in modifying and extending existing game systems, specifically within a Lua-based environment.
garrysmodluamodsandboxgarrys-mod
svdm/ClojureGP
Mar 2009 - Apr 2012
Contributions:124 commits in 3 years 1 month
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