Thijs Brobbel
SRE at Guida
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolThijs Brobbel is an SRE with 15 years of experience who combines deep research instincts and philosophical training with hands-on software and infrastructure work across startups and large retailers. He’s fluent in C# and test-focused tooling—contributing realistic domain generators to the well-known AutoFixture project—and brings pragmatic, business-minded solutions from roles at Coolblue, Buddy Payment, and recent SRE work. Comfortable across information analysis, development, support and testing, he favors agile practices (notably Extreme Programming) and excels at troubleshooting and R&D. Curious by nature, he pairs analytical problem solving with cultivated social skills and a knack for turning technically interesting ideas into customer-oriented outcomes. Outside work he’s a Roslyn and HashiCorp enthusiast, a bouldering dad of two, based in the Randstad.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society, Master of Science (MSc), Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society at Universiteit TwenteBAs, Chemistry, BAs, Chemistry at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (15)
unit-testing10
test-data10
tdd10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
testing10
assert9
assertion9
vim6
roslyn6
linux6
editing6
roslyn-code-analysis6
mstest6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
AutoFixture/AutoFixture
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
AutoFixture is an open source library for .NET designed to minimize the 'Arrange' phase of your unit tests in order to maximize maintainability. Its primary goal is to allow developers to focus on what is being tested rather than how to setup the test scenario, by making it easier to create object graphs containing test data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 9 PRs, 33 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Thijs primarily contributed to the AutoFixture library by adding new classes and generators focused on domain-specific objects like `DomainName` and `EmailAddressLocalPart`. They implemented the `DomainName` class with associated unit tests, a `DomainNameGenerator`, and updated the `MailAddressGenerator` to utilize these new components. These changes enhance AutoFixture's ability to generate realistic test data, improving test maintainability.
goalunitmaintainabilitymaximizegraphs
tiesmaster/AdhocAnalyzers
Nov 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:80 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years 1 month
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