Wouter Geraedts
Directeur at Sarif B.V.
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolWouter Geraedts is an embedded systems and firmware engineer with 14 years of experience who now leads Sarif B.V. as Directeur while remaining available for freelance embedded projects. He combines hands-on software and PCB design with a formal MS in Software Science from Radboud University, bringing strong systems thinking to hardware-adjacent software. His background includes multi-year embedded consultancy and earlier software engineering roles, giving him fluency across firmware, drivers, and higher-level system integration. As an open-source contributor he extended async-std’s filesystem Path/PathBuf components, reflecting a practical interest in asynchronous I/O and reliable tooling for Rust-based back ends. Colleagues value him for turning ambiguous hardware requirements into robust, testable implementations and for bridging the gap between low-level firmware and product delivery. Based in Nijmegen, he blends academic grounding with pragmatic, cross-disciplinary execution.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Software Science, Master of Science - MS Software Science at Radboud University
Github Skills (7)
async-await10
filesystem10
rust10
file-operations10
fileio10
paths10
async10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
async-rs/async-std
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Async version of the Rust standard library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Wouter primarily contributed to the implementation of async versions of standard library components, focusing on `Path` and `PathBuf` functionality. Their work involved creating asynchronous stubs, implementing various methods like `canonicalize`, `components`, `exists`, `metadata`, `symlink_metadata`, `ancestors`, `display`, `ends_with`, `extension`, `file_name`, `file_stem`, `has_root`, `is_absolute`, `is_file`, `is_relative`, `iter`, `join`, `parent`, `read_dir`, `read_link`, `starts_with`, `strip_prefix`, `to_str`, `to_string_lossy`, `with_extension`, and `with_file_name`. This indicates a focus on extending the asynchronous capabilities of the `async-std` library, likely to facilitate asynchronous file system operations.
asynchronousconcurrencyasync-awaitasync-stdrust
tweedegolf/ansible-vault-rs
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Decrypt ansible vault 1.1 files in Rust
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 2 months
rustansiblevaultansible-vaultdecrypt
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