Willem Toorop
Systems And Software Engineer at NLnet Labs
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWillem Toorop is a systems and software engineer based in Amsterdam with 15 years of experience building open-source Internet infrastructure and model applications. At NLnet Labs he develops and evaluates reference implementations that bridge research and production, with a deep focus on reliable, secure network services. His contributions to getdns's stubby project show practical expertise in DNS privacy, configuration parsing (including YAML), and memory-safe C improvements. Formerly a systems analyst in arts education, he combines strong systems-and-network engineering (MSc, University of Amsterdam) with a pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach to solving Internet-scale problems.
15 years of coding experience
MSc, System & Network Engineering, MSc, System & Network Engineering at University of Amsterdam
Github Skills (6)
c1710
configuration-management10
dns10
c1110
yaml9
memory-management8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
getdnsapi/stubby
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
Stubby is the name given to a mode of using getdns which enables it to act as a local DNS Privacy stub resolver (using DNS-over-TLS).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 137 commits, 36 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Willem primarily contributed to the `stubby` project, which functions as a local DNS Privacy stub resolver. Their commits focused on core functionality, including processing configuration options and handling incoming DNS requests. They addressed a specific issue related to option processing. Furthermore, the user implemented improvements in the handling of configuration files, especially with the addition of YAML file support and memory management improvements.
dns-over-tlsactstubdnsprivacy
getdnsapi/ssl_dane
Jan 2018 - Aug 2022
Work-in progress DANE support for OpenSSL
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 4 years 8 months
in-progressdanework-in-progressopenssl
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