Wouter Klouwen
Lead Software Engineer at YouView TV Limited
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWouter Klouwen is a Lead Software Engineer based in London with eight years of formal experience and a broader two-decade trajectory of hands-on engineering across multimedia and broadcast domains. A mainly C++ developer who progressed through individual contributor, freelance and management roles at companies like YouView TV, The Foundry and Quantel, he now combines technical leadership with line-management experience to deliver robust, production-grade systems. He contributes to notable open-source tooling—improving CTest in the upstream CMake mirror by modernizing timing to std::chrono, enhancing logging and adding profiling options—showing a focus on precision, diagnostics and developer ergonomics. Known for pragmatic refactors and practical feature additions, he bridges deep low-level C++ skills with product-facing delivery.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Saxion University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
Github Skills (8)
test-framework10
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
testing10
debug9
build-system9
debugging9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
Kitware/CMake
Nov 2017 - Apr 2020
Mirror of CMake upstream repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Wouter primarily focused on refactoring and improving the CTest component of the CMake project. Their contributions involved migrating timekeeping functionalities from `cmSystemTools::GetTime()` to `std::chrono` library, enhancing the precision and robustness of test duration reporting. Furthermore, the user added options to control the logging of test outputs and error messages, improving the debugging and diagnostics capabilities of the testing framework. These improvements included a new SIZE option for the file command, enhancements to external project logging, and the addition of code profiling capabilities.
cppcmakeupstream
redhat-imaging/imagefactory
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
imagefactory builds images for a variety of operating system/cloud combinations.
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
buildsoperating-systemcombinationslinuximagefactory
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