Wim Pool
Eigenaar at The Growth Lab
Almkerk, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWim Pool is an experienced software engineer and entrepreneur with over 25 years in application development, database administration, and technical team leadership, now running Xelflow and leading product work for The Growth Lab and Wimmen. He has a strong consulting background at Logica/CMG and has delivered projects for major Dutch clients like NS, ING and KLM. Since 2021 he has been the lead developer on Bisbrick, a low-code platform for data-driven websites, combining pragmatic engineering with product-minded leadership. An active contributor to ServiceStack.Text, he has improved core .NET serialization behavior and test coverage—showing a willingness to dig into high-performance libraries. Trained as an econometrician (VU Amsterdam), he brings analytical rigor to software problems and a chessplayer’s knack for quickly analyzing complex situations. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who favors elegant, reliable solutions over unnecessary complexity.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master Econometrie, Master Econometrie at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
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Github Skills (8)
serialization10
json10
deserialization10
data-serialization10
csharp10
testing10
xml8
csv6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Text
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
.NET's fastest JSON, JSV and CSV Text Serializers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Wim contributed to the `servicestack/servicestack.text` repository, focusing on enhancements to the serialization and deserialization functionality. Their work involved modifying code related to `IEnumerable` and `ICollection` interfaces to ensure consistent behavior. The commits also addressed issues related to handling `XmlElement` types and missing return statements, which involved changes in core files like `DeserializeSpecializedCollections.cs`, `JsReader.cs`, and `JsWriter.cs`. Furthermore, the user added tests to improve the existing testing suite.
csvpocoserializersfastestc-sharp
WimAtIHomer/fullcalendar
Dec 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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