Nick Veenhof

Director of Engineering

Ghent, Belgium19 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Strong advocate for Open Source in the tech community.
  • Director of Developer Relations at GitLab.
  • Experienced in organizing large-scale tech events.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in the Open Source and Web Development industries.

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Other Skills

DrupalPHPWeb DevelopmentWeb ApplicationsSolrOpen SourceMySQLGitUser ExperienceLAMPE-commerceCSSCMSJavaScriptSubversion

About

I have been involved in open source communities for my entire professional career, with the majority of that in the open web ecosystem and more recently in the infrastructure/DevOps space. I am advocating Open Source at GitLab and making our digital world a better and more open place compared to yesterday.

Experience

19 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Gitlab

Director, Developer Relations

Apr 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Ghent · Remote

  • Responsible for Developer Relations Engineering & Developer Relations Programs

Drupal association

Board Member

Nov 2021Nov 2024 · 3 yrs · Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium · Remote

  • Helping to advance the Drupal Association's mission to unite a global open source community to build, secure, and promote Drupal

Drupal user group belgium (dug be vzw)

2 roles

Lead Organizer Drupal Developer Days 2022

Sep 2019Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium

  • Drupal Developer Days is an annual gathering of people loving, learning and discussing the open-source content management system, Drupal. The event is organised by the Drupal community, which gathers people from all over the world who contribute to the progress of Drupal, taking place in Europe every year. In 2022 over 360 people came to Ghent to contribute to the Open Source project Drupal.

Chairman

Jun 2019Present · 6 yrs 11 mos · Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium

  • Organizing events in order to promote the use of the open source project Drupal, both from a technical point of view as from and end-user point of view in Flanders, Belgium.
  • I've been involved in the non-profit for many years where we organised impactful events such as Drupalcamps and next year's Drupal Developer Days, which attributes to the success Drupal still has in the respective region.

Dropsolid nv

CTO

Feb 2017Apr 2022 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Gent Area, Belgium

  • Building & delivering ambitious digital experiences and the products to achieve exactly that.

Acquia

3 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Sep 2015Feb 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • My main goal was to make Drupal and the 'Software as a Service'​ products that Acquia offers succeed. I helped in Migrating a running anti-spam service to move from dedicated servers to AWS. Helped design the architecture and API's for Acquia's personalization product and implement them. Programming languages varied from PHP, GoLang, Ruby and Python. In this position I also served a team as their scrum-master in order to help deliver the product in a timely fashion.

Lead Search Engineer

Mar 2012Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • I'm continuing what I started as an intern. I will be involved in creating a better search experience using Drupal sites within or outside the Acquia Hosting Network

Intern

Sep 2011Mar 2012 · 6 mos

  • Working on improving the Apache Solr implementation. This includes the module on Drupal.org and for the Acquia Network.

At sistemas

Drupal Architect

Sep 2010Jan 2011 · 4 mos

  • Apache Solr + Drupal Architecture outlining

Krimson (now wunderkraut)

Drupal Developer

Aug 2008Aug 2009 · 1 yr

  • Drupal Developer for various web applications going to full flash service based website to high profile communities.

Victaulic

Web developer (Web) + support

Aug 2008Aug 2008 · 0 mo

  • Created an intranet to manage documents

Fluxon

Company Owner

Nov 2007Aug 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Leading and developing web-applications for customers who want clarity on what is possible on the internet.

Mobistar

Web developer

Aug 2007Aug 2007 · 0 mo

  • Internal duplicate file searching tool per workstation. Based on a fetch of all the personal files of the user it compared all these files against the files on the shared folder and tried to see how efficient people were working. (PHP)

Drupal project

Contributor

Mar 2007Apr 2022 · 15 yrs 1 mo

  • See https://drupal.org/user/122682

Education

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Master — Information Technology

Jan 2009Jan 2011

Instituto Superior Técnico

Master — IT

Jan 2011Jan 2011

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Bachelor — Information and communication technology

Jan 2008Jan 2009

Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', Gent

Bachelor

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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