Erik Verbruggen
Project Engineer at Heras
Zeeland, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Verbruggen is an experienced project and design engineer with 14+ years crafting fine mechanical equipment, tooling and factory layouts, and over two decades of hands-on CAD work. He translates customer ideas into precise 2D and 3D models using AutoCAD, Inventor and SolidWorks, and teaches colleagues practical Autodesk workflows across projects at Heras. As owner of a mechanical design agency he has delivered everything from semiconductor test tools to packaging and barcode machines, demonstrating strength in pneumatic and vacuum tooling. Unusually for a mechanical specialist, he also contributes to notable open-source projects—working on compiler internals in Clang and enhancing embedded MCU support and QML bytecode features in Qt—showing deep back-end and embedded-system proficiency. Based in Zeeland, Netherlands, he combines field-level mechanic experience with office-based CAD expertise and a track record of turning complex requirements into manufacturable designs.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Autodesk Fusion 360, Autodesk Fusion 360 at ICN SolutionsWerktuigbouwkunde, Werktuigbouwkunde at LBO/MBO/(HBO) WerktuigbouwkundeCertificate, Autodesk Inventor Advanced, Certificate, Autodesk Inventor Advanced at ICN Solutions/AutodeskSub-Certificate (DSPE), Design principles, Sub-Certificate (DSPE), Design principles at Design principles Mikrocentrum
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (30)
objective-c10
javascript10
c-language10
ssl10
qt10
launchd10
abstract-syntax-tree10
gui-application10
cmake10
c1110
desktop-application10
c1710
compiler-compiler10
sys10
qml10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
owncloud/client
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
🖥️ Desktop Syncing Client for ownCloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:626 reviews, 85 commits, 318 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements related to the ownCloud client's core functionality. Their contributions included addressing SSL error handling, such as preventing excessive logging, and fixing a crash related to handling SSL errors. They also worked on issues related to the file sync process, including fixing a sync-start regression and addressing problems with incomplete directory propagation. Furthermore, the user made general code improvements by fixing compiler warnings and refactoring code.
owncloudcppdesktopserver-syncsync-client
qt/qtdeclarative
Jan 2013 - Dec 2013
Qt Declarative (Quick 2)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:206 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Erik's contributions focused on implementing new features for the QML JavaScript engine's bytecode compiler, including features for defining getter/setter properties and properties via defineProperty. The user also corrected compiler warnings, and added support for JavaScript's parseInt and parseFloat functions. The commits show the user's work on fixing issues related to automatic semicolon insertion and code generation for both the interpreter and LLVM backend for better code generation.
qt
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