Tino De Bruijn is a product-minded technical leader and UI-focused full-stack developer with 11 years of experience, currently steering technology as Chief Technical Monkey at Solar Monkey and running a freelance web design studio. He combines an MSc in Design for Interaction with hands-on engineering—shipping usable web apps and maintaining back-end systems in Django and Python—so he can take projects from fuzzy concept through polished, user-centered delivery. An active open-source contributor, he has improved quality and testing in projects like pyFirmata and the popular Consul load-balancer fabio, showing a pragmatic focus on reliability and maintainability. Based in The Hague, he blends design thinking, user research, and code craftsmanship to solve complex data problems with elegant interfaces, and has a track record of turning human-centered principles into working EHR and high-traffic web solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Outdoor Education, Outdoor Education at Colorado Mountain College
2005 VWO, 2005 VWO at Vossius Gymnasium, Amsterdam
Master of Science (MSc) Design for Interaction, Master of Science (MSc) Design for Interaction at Delft University of Technology
Python interface for the Firmata (http://firmata.org/) protocol. It is compliant with Firmata 2.1. Any help with updating to 2.2 is welcome. The Capability Query is implemented, but the Pin State Query feature not yet.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 17 PRs, 32 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tino contributed to the pyfirmata project by fixing typos, improving code style through flake8, and removing unused error captures. They also bumped the project version and updated the python versions supported in the README file. These contributions suggest a focus on code quality, project maintenance, and version control.
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 25 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Tino primarily focused on enhancing the "fabio" project, a Consul-based load balancer. Their contributions involved implementing custom HTML responses for "no route" scenarios, adding integration tests to improve functionality verification, and refactoring the codebase by removing unnecessary constructs. They also worked on integrating file and static backends, and moved the "no route" store into its own package. The user's work demonstrates a focus on improving the load balancer's features and ensuring its reliability.
golangdockervaultload-balancingconsul
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Tino De Bruijn - Chief Technical Monkey at Solar Monkey