Tom Elfring
Tech Lead at Topicus
Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTom Elfring is a Tech Lead based in Overijssel, Netherlands with a decade of hands-on experience building backend systems, CI integrations, and DevOps tooling. At Topicus he progressed from graduate researcher to tech lead, driving delivery and mentoring teams while maintaining a strong engineering focus. His open-source contributions include improving GitLab integration for the widely used jenkinsci/gitlab-plugin—adding CI-triggering support and important bug fixes that improved commit status reliability. Comfortable across operations and development, he blends systems thinking from his early service-desk and hardware repair roles with formal training in Technical Computer Science and network administration. Known on GitHub as thommy101, he brings practical expertise in automating build workflows and a pragmatic approach to reliable, production-grade integrations.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Netwerkbeheer Niveau 4, Netwerkbeheer Niveau 4 at ROC van TwenteVMBO - Gemengde leerweg, VMBO - Gemengde leerweg at Het Assink LyceumBachelor of Science - BS Technische Informatica, Bachelor of Science - BS Technische Informatica at Saxion University of Applied SciencesHavo/Vwo, Havo/Vwo at Marianum
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (21)
git10
debug10
minecraft-forge10
gitlab-api10
java10
cicd10
javas10
minecraft-fabric10
jenkins-plugin10
version-control10
game-development10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/gitlab-plugin
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
A Jenkins plugin for interfacing with GitLab
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 19 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Tom focused on enhancing the GitLab integration within the Jenkins plugin. They implemented support for GitLab 8.1's CI features, including the ability to create commit statuses and trigger builds based on push and merge request events. Additionally, they addressed bug fixes related to the URL and commit hash used in commit status updates. Furthermore, the user added missing getter methods to improve data access and usability.
jenkinsgitlab-apijenkins-plugingitflowjenkins-api-plugin
thommy101/Mekanism
Nov 2016 - Apr 2019
A mod for Minecraft
Contributions:1 PR, 121 pushes, 133 branches in 2 years 5 months
minecraftmodutility-modminecraft-modforge
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