Hi! My name is Sander Mathijs van Veen and I'm a Dutch computer
scientist. I like to use, develop and contribute to
FOSS projects. My fields
of interest are distributed systems, compilers, low-level, C, Python, Go,
Rust and web development. My email is
sandervv[at]gmail[dot]com.
- March 2021 — Present
- Staff engineer Specialized in frontend and
backend tooling and CI/CD pipelines:
- Led large-scale monorepo (3M+ lines of TypeScript code)
migrations of tooling (like swc, jest, eslint).
- Made frontend deployment very fast (from 15 min to 10
sec!) and rollback strategies.
- Predictable and reliable releases (from a few releases per week to 7 daily
releases!).
- Implementend automated test selection strategies (to avoid running 4k
end-to-end tests for each pull request or master branch commit).
Keywords: Golang, TypeScript, GitHub Actions/Workflows, Python, AST, Linters.
- March 2021 — Oct 2022
- Engineering manager Led the Platform Web SDK team
(5 engineers, 1 PM) that owned and developed the Web software
development kit for extending Miro's functionality by external
developers.
Keywords: TypeScript, docs-in-code, enterprise, stability.
- June, 2018 — March 2021
- Co-founder At WeekMeals, I bootstrapped a
nutritional science company with Stijn (co-founder, marketing/sales).
The goal is that end user know what to eat in order to hit their goal
(gain or lose weight) while providing guidance and a "computed meal
plan" of what to eat. We got 3000+ paying end-users, and as the only
(full stack) engineer built the backend APIs and frontend apps
(iOS/Android/Web).
Keywords: Golang, Python, React, JS with Flow.
- April, 2019 — Nov, 2020
- DevOps (part-time) At Hatching, I've built custom
CI/CD pipeline software that performs unit, visual and integration
tests. Their malware analysis software runs on LXC, QEMU and iptables
which made existing CI/CD software hard to use.
Keywords: QEMU, LXC, Docker, Cypress, Percy, Golang, CI/CD.
- June, 2015 — May, 2018
- Compiler engineer At LeaningTech, I'm working on a
C++-to-JS compiler called Cheerp. Cheerp is a backend target of LLVM.
I'm also submitting patches to Firefox' and Google's JS JIT engine.
Keywords: LLVM, CodeGen, JIT, v8, SpiderMonkey, WebAssembly.
- October, 2013 — May, 2015
- Software engineer At Splendo,
I'm responsible for creating and maintaining the user tracking backend,
and maintaining a mobile payment backend of a premium video provider.
Keywords: Java, Groovy, Google App Engine, scalability, fault
tolerance, high availability. As well as: Amazon S3, EC2, Redis, Python
and AngularJS.
- January, 2012 — April, 2013
- Lead software engineer At BlueBubbleCode,
I was responsible for creating the technical and functional design, and
creating the implementation with a six-headed team of a revolutionair,
automatic object recognizing ad network for video content.
Keywords: Python, C, object recognition, machine learning,
BackboneJS, UX, scalability, distributed networking, libav, OpenMP.
- 2013
- Rust compiler Implement a b-tree
for the Rust standard library, and add an alias
analysis pass to rustc.
- 2012 — 2013
- GNU Gold linker Extend this ELF linker to support
concurrent linking. Not to be confused with parallel linking.
Basically, concurrent linking will streamline the build process. This
project is part of my bachelor thesis.
- 2011 — 2012
- Mathematical term rewriting system Given a user-written math
expression, the system will generate all rewrite possibilities. It will
verify the user's rewrite steps and, upon request, it will display the
best step to rewrite the expression.
- 2011 — 2012
- Build system analysis Visualize GNU Make and
PyMake build systems. For example, see the build system analysis of
Mozilla's JavaScript engine.
- 2011 — 2012
- Mozilla’s JavaScript JIT compiler
Participating in solving various memory- and build system related bugs:
673331,
673158,
681556,
634839,
680824.
My public git repos can be found at
github.com/smvv.
In the last year of my secondary school (2008 — 2009), I
explicitly chose to put more time than the required 80 hours in my final
project: I spent over 1,500 hours in prototyping, coding and testing,
since I wanted to create something beautiful and innovative.
My final project, called Voortgezet Onderwijs
2.0 (Dutch for secondary school 2.0), is a web platform
for creating, making and sharing computer-based exams. Currently, vo20 is
only available for the subjects chemistry and computer science. The vo20
project has won the following awards:
- october 2009
- T-Oscar
Award, Regionaal TechnoCentrum Amsterdam.
- june 2009
- Junior
Prof Award, VU University Amsterdam.
- april 2009
- Best
Technical Design, second place, TU Delft.
- april 2009
- International
Conference of Young Scientists, silver, Poland.
- april 2009
- Informatica Scholieren prijs, Radboud University.
- april 2009
- Van
Melsen prijs, first place, Radboud University.
- Bash
- C / C++
- Golang
- HTML / CSS / Sass
- Markdown (I ❤️ docs!)
- Python
- Rust
- TypeScript
Or... the right tool for the job!