Timon Van Overveldt
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimon Van Overveldt is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 15 years of experience building robust backend systems at Google, progressing from Software Engineer to technical staff since 2013. He combines deep systems and networking expertise with a research-driven background from internships at Microsoft Research and UCSB, and a Magna Cum Laude M.Sc. in Computer Science from KU Leuven. Timon contributes to open-source projects like an open-source Flash player where he implemented network, local file access, and security-sensitive features—an indication of his attention to edge-case correctness and API-level integrations. Known for evolving core class structures and adding ByteArray/ExternalInterface support, he brings both low-level engineering rigor and pragmatic delivery to large-scale products.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatics (Computer Science), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatics (Computer Science) at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
network-programming10
apidoc9
fileio9
file-access9
api9
file-processing9
file-handling9
security8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lightspark/lightspark
Aug 2010 - Mar 2012
An open source flash player implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:275 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Timon primarily contributed to the implementation of features related to network functionalities, including support for local file access within the flash player implementation. They added classes and methods for handling network connections, streams, and downloads, particularly focusing on the integration of local file access and related security considerations within a flash player implementation. They also made significant changes to the codebase's underlying class structures, including adding support for the ByteArray and ExternalInterface APIs.
opengl3androidflashvaapikotlin
timonvo/rust
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:52 pushes, 11 branches in 4 months
concurrent-saferustpracticalcompilerprogramming-language
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