Thomas Bruggink
Software Engineer at LINE Corp
Fukuoka, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Bruggink is a software engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining backend systems, currently based in Fukuoka and working at LINE Corp. He has led engineering efforts at Info Support and contributed to web development, testing, and deployment across several companies, demonstrating a strong operational grounding. As an open-source contributor to the well-known Apache Thrift project, he fixed subtle code-generation bugs, improved build processes, and hardened C++ SSL/TLS behavior for broader OpenSSL compatibility. That blend of production service experience and low-level interoperability work shows he’s comfortable both shipping product features and diving into protocol-level details. He holds a BASc in Information Technology from Christelijke Hogeschool Windesheim and brings a pragmatic, quality-focused approach to distributed systems engineering.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Information Technology at Christelijke Hogeschool Windesheim
English, Dutch
Github Skills (11)
javas10
lua10
c-language10
thrift10
cprogramming-language10
back-end-development10
java10
security9
openssl9
testing8
network-programming8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/thrift
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Apache Thrift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 3 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the build process for the Apache Thrift project. Their work involved addressing issues in the Netstd client, specifically resolving incorrect generation of default enum values and build failures. The user also addressed security issues related to SSL/TLS protocols within the C++ library, ensuring compatibility with different OpenSSL versions. Furthermore, the user extended the Java and Lua implementations by adding methods to expose service result objects and supporting Lua 5.3/5.4.
actionscriptapache-thriftnetwork-clientdartapache
thomasbruggink/ContainerKiller
Oct 2018 - Aug 2022
A small tool to simulate container faillures and network errors
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 3 years 11 months
containersdockercsharpnetcoresimulate
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