Tako Schotanus
Principal Software Engineer at IBM
Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTako Schotanus is a Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience designing robust, well-architected systems across Java, C/C++, and legacy stacks, now based in Alicante. He has driven compiler and runtime work at Red Hat (including the Ceylon language and JDK evolution) and recently contributed to GraalVM native-image improvements that address Windows command-line limits—an example of tackling subtle platform pain points. Known for prioritizing clean design over quick fixes, he has led technical efforts from emergency-services backend systems to developer tooling and cloud-native quick starts. At IBM he continues to shape language and runtime futures while mentoring teams to produce maintainable, production-grade software.
15 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
CSG Jan ArentszComputer Science, Computer Science at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied SciencesComputer Science, Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, Spanish, German, French
Github Skills (8)
javas10
compiler10
compiler-compiler10
graalvm10
java10
aot9
build-automation8
windows7
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
oracle/graal
May 2020 - Sep 2020
GraalVM compiles applications into native executables that start instantly, scale fast, and use fewer compute resources 🚀
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 1 PR, 29 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tako focused on improving the native-image build process for the GraalVM project. Their contributions involved modifying the build arguments and file handling, particularly on Windows systems, to accommodate large command-line arguments. They introduced the use of temporary argument files to overcome command-line length limitations and added functionality to handle and manage these files, including cleanup procedures. They also made improvements to error analysis by copying argument files for debugging purposes.
graalvmjavaaotcompiler
quintesse/inkscape-extension-pathops
Feb 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 1 branch in 4 years
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