Tom Vriens
Banencoördinator
Rijkevorsel, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTom Vriens is a seasoned Unix/Linux systems expert and application integration SME with 12+ years of experience in diagnosing performance and stability issues for enterprise Java applications and middleware. At DXC he combines hands-on technical investigation with people development—coaching junior and mid-level engineers and coordinating bench resources to upskill staff between assignments. His background as a technical architect at HPE gives him deep cross-domain knowledge of servers, networking, security and monitoring, and he applies that to cloud migration advice and pragmatic architecture decisions. Tom contributes to open-source .NET projects like RestSharp and TMDbLib, demonstrating careful maintenance work around dependency management, deserialization robustness and version-control conflict resolution. Trained as a Preventieadviseur (level II), he uniquely blends operational resilience with workplace safety expertise, making him a pragmatic advocate for both system and team wellbeing.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Toegepaste informatica, Bachelor's degree Toegepaste informatica at Karel de Grote-HogeschoolPreventieadviseur niveau 2, Preventieadviseur niveau 2 at Provinciaal Veiligheidsinstituut Antwerpen
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (11)
net10
unit-testing10
json-deserialization10
nuget10
http10
asp-net10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
rest-api9
version-control9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jellyfin/TMDbLib
Jul 2013 - Dec 2020
C#.Net library for TheMovieDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 22 PRs, 51 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on updating the project's dependencies. Their contributions include updating the RestSharp reference to a NuGet package, removing an old package reference, and adding NuGet package restore functionality. They also participated in merging changes from another branch, resolving conflicts related to project files and TMDbLib code, indicating experience with code integration and version control. These actions suggest a focus on maintaining and integrating external libraries within the project.
net-librarymoviescsharptmdbthemoviedb
restsharp/RestSharp
Sep 2013 - Jan 2014
Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the REST client library. They added new unit tests for deserialization changes, improved the handling of HTTP status codes, and addressed potential exceptions related to deserialization. Additionally, they corrected indentation and made code improvements for better processing of enum values.
api-clientapidotnethttp-api-clientcsharp
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