Wichert Akkerman
Founder And Owner at Simplon B.V.
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarWichert Akkerman is a seasoned founder and software engineer with 20 years of experience building robust web and systems software from the Netherlands’ Randstad. He runs Simplon, a one-man consultancy that has delivered multi-lingual, high-availability applications (notably Euphorie) and rescued complex simulation and CMS projects—work that earned a Shell Special Recognition Award. Deeply rooted in open source, he contributes to prominent Python projects such as Pyramid, Plone and the i18next scanner, often focusing on authentication, i18n, parsing and test automation. Comfortable across full-stack, devops and security concerns, he has led product teams and built CI/CD and Kubernetes deployments as a senior consultant and CTO. His niche strength is turning underspecified, risky projects into production-grade, well-tested systems through pragmatic architecture, automation and careful dependency management.
20 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
5,108reputation
805kreached
43answers
8questions
gdb
top-5%
debugging
top-5%
Github Skills (67)
dependency-management10
cms10
python10
image-processing10
testing10
firewall10
authentication10
c1110
url-parsing10
security10
c1710
i18n-js10
jsx10
web-widgets10
scanner10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
pyradius/pyrad
Apr 2007 - Jul 2013
Python RADIUS Implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:131 commits, 4 comments in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Wichert primarily contributed to the pyrad project by implementing and extending unit tests. They added new tests for various aspects of the dictionary parsing and attribute handling, including value and vendor parsing. The user also refactored code to facilitate easier testing and included tests for the bidict and tools modules. Furthermore, they made changes to setup.py, indicating a focus on build and test automation.
pythonradius
plone/Products.CMFPlone
Dec 2005 - Sep 2009
The core of the Plone content management system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:517 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Wichert's commits primarily focused on adjusting dependencies and preparing releases for the Plone content management system. These adjustments involved modifying the `setup.py` file to include or remove dependencies and updating migration scripts. The contributions also included preparing and hooking in migrations for specific versions of Plone. The user's work was centered on maintaining the project's dependencies and ensuring smooth upgrade paths.
cmsmanagement-systemphpcfmlplone
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