Terts Diepraam
Software Engineer at uutils
Netherlands
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Top SchoolTerts Diepraam is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working at NLnet Labs and maintaining the Rust re-implementation of GNU coreutils at uutils. He co-organises RustNL and RustWeek, reflecting deep involvement in the Rust community and ecosystem. His contributions to projects like eza show a focus on performance, parallelism (migrating to rayon), and maintainable Rust idioms such as enum defaults and improved terminal grids. Educated at TU Delft and Amsterdam University College, he blends strong academic CS foundations with practical open-source stewardship. Beyond code, he has experience in public-facing roles organizing events and guiding youth, indicating an ability to communicate technical ideas to diverse audiences.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Informatica, Natuurkunde & Wiskunde, Bachelor's degree, Informatica, Natuurkunde & Wiskunde at Amsterdam University CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at TU Delft
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Github Skills (9)
parallel-processing10
rust10
performance-optimization10
command-line10
m-files9
data-files9
text-files9
terminal-emulator8
terminal-application8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
eza-community/eza
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
A modern alternative to ls
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 7 PRs, 33 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Terts contributed to the `eza` project by refactoring and optimizing existing code, specifically replacing `scoped_threadpool` with `rayon` for parallel processing. The user also focused on code improvements by using the `#[default]` attribute for enums and optimizing mount point information retrieval. The user also refactored grid and grid-details to use new uutils-term-grid. These changes indicate a focus on performance and code maintainability improvements.
command-lineiconslsnerd-fontsrust
TertsDiepraam/PiWatch
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:163 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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