Wouter De Vries
Principal Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWouter De Vries is a Principal Systems Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in anycast, DNS behavior, and DDoS resilience engineering. He holds a PhD from the University of Twente where he developed a bias-free, highly accurate anycast catchment measurement methodology and applied it at global scale to improve mitigation and routing decisions. At Cloudflare he progressed from systems engineer to principal, building platforms for detailed anycast measurement and operational optimization that directly inform latency and resiliency improvements. His background blends hands-on distributed systems engineering, large-scale data pipeline work (Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes) from industry roles, and rigorous academic research. Based in Hengelo, Netherlands, he brings a rare combination of research rigor and production-grade tooling that helps CDNs and network operators make evidence-driven changes. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of translating novel measurement methods into practical network instrumentation used in live anycast deployments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of TwenteBachelor of Information and Communication Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology, Computer Science at Saxion University of Applied SciencesHavo, Natuur & Techniek, Havo, Natuur & Techniek at Scholengemeenschap Twickel
Dutch, English
Github Skills (96)
go-cache10
lru10
golang10
high-performance10
java10
apache-nifi9
traffic-analysis9
mistral9
ollama9
powerdns9
ffi9
nfv9
gemma9
llm9
apache9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Woutifier/mrt
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
An MRT (RFC6396) file parser implemented in Rust, using Nom.
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year
rustrustlangmrtfile-parserparser
Woutifier/dpdkcap
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 21 pushes in 1 day
dpdkpacketpacket-capture
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