Yorick Peterse
Senior Policy Advisor at Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolYorick Peterse is a senior policy advisor at the Dutch Ministry of Health with 15 years of experience bridging biomedical research, technology and public policy. Trained across translational psychiatry, biomedical sciences, psychology and history, he blends rigorous scientific thinking with practical policy design and a track record in entrepreneurship as co‑founder of a life sciences marketing firm. A seasoned software contributor and former staff backend engineer at GitLab, he authors the Inko programming language and has made deep technical contributions to projects like Gleam, GitLab and Rubinius, evidencing strong systems and compiler-level expertise. His international career across major European research and tech hubs informs a pragmatic, culturally aware approach to complex regulatory and technical challenges. Notably, he combines hands‑on engineering skill (DevOps, database and compiler work) with frontline policy advising in pharmaceutical affairs, a rare cross-disciplinary profile.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichMSc (160 ECTS), BSc (180 ECTS), MSc (160 ECTS), BSc (180 ECTS) at Leiden UniversityGerman Language C1, German Language C1 at Goethe Institut
English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish
Github Skills (70)
programming-language10
parser10
postgresql10
gitlab-omnibus10
testing10
c1110
ruby10
c1710
chef-client10
code-analysis10
backend10
tree-sitter10
api10
gleam10
compiler10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/gitlabhq
Jul 2015 - Aug 2020
GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2013 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Yorick primarily focused on backend development tasks, contributing to the implementation of keyset pagination support for the API. The user also worked on increasing the text limit for GPG keys, indicating experience with database migrations and database schema changes. Furthermore, the user fixed fast admin counters and implemented the addition of a partial index for merge requests to improve query performance.
gitlab-apinew-issuestrackerrailsgitea
gitlabhq/omnibus-gitlab
Jan 2016 - Jun 2021
GitLab Omnibus Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Database Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Database EngineerContributions:103 commits, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yorick primarily focused on improving the GitLab Omnibus package's database configuration and infrastructure management. They implemented features to support PostgreSQL settings, including synchronous replication, load balancing, and various performance optimizations. Their contributions also included changes to Unicorn and Sidekiq configurations, enhancing memory limits and process management for improved performance and reliability of the GitLab instance.
new-issuestrackergitlabgitlab-omnibusissue-tracker
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