Victor Derks
Freelance Software Engineer at Self-employed
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolVictor Derks is a seasoned freelance software engineer based in Nijmegen with over 25 years of hands-on experience across the full technical development lifecycle, from requirements and system design to implementation and team leadership. He specializes in technical, embedded, and medical software, with deep domain knowledge in DICOM, HL7, real-time systems, Windows device drivers, C#, C++ and system architecture. Victor has led and contributed to complex healthcare products (notably GE Healthcare’s Centricity VNA work) and instrumentation firmware and drivers for analytical and imaging devices. Comfortable switching between hands-on coding, architecture and product management, he pairs Agile practices with rigorous engineering for regulated environments. His background in applied physics and early work on embedded navigation and real-time middleware give him a strong foundation for solving low-level performance and integration challenges. As a consultant he focuses on turning ambiguous requirements into pragmatic, testable designs that ship in production.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
SBP met Goldratt Principes, SBP met Goldratt Principes at ISES InternationalMS Applied Physics, MS Applied Physics at Delft University of TechnologyQuality Service Skills, Quality Service Skills at achieveglobalPersoonlijke Effectiviteit, Persoonlijke Effectiviteit at Schouten & NelissenAtheneum B, Atheneum B at Elshofcollege, NijmegenDICOM In-Depth, DICOM In-Depth at GEMS IT Global Connectivity Center
Dutch, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (198)
simulator10
image-processing10
windows10
bmp10
instrumentation10
webp10
profiling10
compression10
cpp10
runner10
razor10
ninja10
compress10
encoder10
linux10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vbaderks/UbcJpegLS
May 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
vbaderks/ConvertProjDepToProjRef
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
Tool to convert project dependencies to MSBuild project references
Contributions:2 releases, 23 PRs, 27 pushes in 4 years 3 months
slndependenciesmsbuild
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