Summary
Stephen Van Den Berg is Chief Science Officer at Cubic Circle B.V. with 33 years of hands-on experience in low-level systems, FPGA/PCB design, and high-performance software spanning C, assembly, Linux kernel, and GCC internals. A physicist by training (RWTH Aachen), he specializes in optimisation and scaling "to the limit," fast analysis of very large codebases, and mediating between poorly communicating teams. He is an active open-source contributor—known for work on enigma2/OpenATV (improving EPG UX and event handling) and authoring procmail—bringing deep expertise in SQL, IMAP servers, and PostgreSQL. Uncommonly, he blends hardware PCB/FPGA design with kernel and compiler hacking, enabling pragmatic end-to-end solutions from silicon to service.
33 years of coding experience
Dipl. Phys., Physics, Dipl. Phys., Physics at RWTH Aachen University
VWO, Gymnasium B, VWO, Gymnasium B at Bernardinuscollege
Dutch, English, German, Latin, French