Timo Truyts is an engineering manager and former tech lead with 12 years of experience building and operating Go-based microservice platforms, currently leading consumer and business lending teams at Lendo in Umeå. He combines hands-on backend expertise (Go, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD) with people leadership across cross-functional teams, having moved quickly from individual contributor to interim manager roles. Timo has a history of full-stack and startup work—from co-founding a sports discovery app to developing kitchen management and EU-funded projects—which gives him a pragmatic product-minded engineering approach. He contributes to open source by improving code correctness in projects like Perkeep, demonstrating attention to detail and reliability in production code.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer science with major Data science (not finished), Master's degree Computer science with major Data science (not finished) at University of Antwerp
Perkeep (née Camlistore) is your personal storage system for life: a way of storing, syncing, sharing, modelling and backing up content.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Timo primarily focused on fixing formatting and function call errors within the codebase. This involved correcting the arguments and types used in various formatting functions like `fmt.Printf` and `fmt.Println` throughout multiple files. Additionally, the user addressed other code issues, including a typo in the documentation and the use of `Fatal` instead of `Fatalf`. These changes suggest a focus on code correctness and improving the reliability of the Perkeep project.
Contributions:128 commits, 1 PR, 44 pushes in 1 month
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