Ties De Kock
Specialist Software Engineer at RIPE NCC
Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolTies De Kock is a Specialist Software Engineer with 16 years of experience, currently advancing infrastructure and services at RIPE NCC after progressing through roles from Software Engineer to Senior and now Specialist since 2019. Based in Enschede, he combines academic grounding from the University of Twente with long-term applied development experience at the university and in industry internships at CERN and Textkernel. His background includes co-founding a small business, reflecting an entrepreneurial mindset alongside deep technical delivery. Ties is comfortable operating across research-driven and operational environments, shipping reliable systems that support internet infrastructure and academic projects. Colleagues would describe him as a steady, institutional knowledge-holder who elevates team practices while quietly driving complex backend work.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Twente University
Github Skills (200)
python10
wrangler10
exporter10
prometheus-exporter10
wireguard10
security10
ubuntu10
rsync10
internet10
home-assistant10
ansible-role10
monitoring10
vpn10
debian10
mqtt10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
RIPE-NCC/internet-dataset-descriptions
Feb 2022 - May 2026
An attempt to write collaborative documentation about Internet datasets ( RIS , RIPE Atlas , RPKI repo archive )
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 20 pushes in 4 years 4 months
atsatlasrisrpkicrossword
ties/tvheadend_m3importer
Nov 2014 - Oct 2019
A quick M3U importer for Tvheadend, in Python
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years
m3upython
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