Yorick Van Pelt
Co-Founder at Datakami
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarYorick Van Pelt is a seasoned infrastructure and developer productivity engineer with 14 years of experience, now co-founding Datakami from Nijmegen. He excels at bridging DevOps, backend systems, and build tooling—evidenced by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like the Mina cryptocurrency protocol and the Nix package manager where he improved CI, build pipelines, and core package handling. At Tweag and Serokell he focused on developer productivity and SRE, optimizing build parallelism, deployment workflows, and reliability for complex Haskell and mixed-language stacks. Yorick also contributes to machine-learning tooling such as Replicate’s cog, improving containerized ML workflows and prediction tooling, showing a knack for making research-friendly systems production-ready. Colleagues rely on him for deep system-level debugging and pragmatic automation that reduces toil across large, polyglot codebases.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (51)
json-parser10
json10
container10
docker10
c-language10
nix10
python10
package-management10
command-line-interface10
jsonp10
machine-learning10
dockers10
cicd10
parsing10
libarchive10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
replicate/cog
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
Containers for machine learning
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 46 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Yorick van Pelt contributed significantly to the `cog` project, focused on creating and managing containerized machine learning environments. Their work includes enhancing the `cog predict` and `cog train` commands, adding features for input/output handling, image selection, and environment variable configuration. They also addressed type errors and made improvements to the Python code, specifically related to schema parsing and prediction workflows, ensuring compatibility and usability across different versions.
containerscudapytorchdeep-learningdocker
MinaProtocol/mina
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
Mina is a cryptocurrency protocol with a constant size blockchain, improving scaling while maintaining decentralization and security.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:26 reviews, 131 commits, 27 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Yorick's commits primarily focused on enhancing the build and deployment processes of the Mina protocol. This includes bumping dependencies for build packages and adding or modifying Nix configurations. The user also worked on integrating and configuring wasm builds, improving the build scripts for Javascript and Rust components, and configuring continuous integration pipelines, which is vital for maintaining a functional blockchain project.
minaethereumsecurityblockchainocaml
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