About Me
I'm a software developer from The Netherlands, with over a decade of software development experience. I work at GitLab as a Staff Backend Engineer.
I'm interested in the development and theory of compilers, virtual machines, garbage collectors, and programming languages. I'm also the author of the Inko programming language. If you'd like to support my work on free and open-source software, you can do so using GitHub Sponsors.
You can find me on GitLab, GitHub, Twitter,
Reddit and lobste.rs. If you wish to contact me through
Email, my Email address is yorick at this domain name. Emails sent by
recruiters will be marked as spam.
My GPG public key is EB691AC9. Other keys registered on my name are no longer in use.
Free And open-source software
A non-exhaustive list of the Free and Open Source Software projects that I work on or have worked on in the past:
- Inko: a statically typed, object-oriented programming language focusing on concurrency and safety; inspired by Ruby, Smalltalk, Erlang and Rust.
- GitLab: a complete CI/CD toolchain in a single application.
- libbfi-rs: Rust bindings for libffi.
- Oga: an XML/HTML parser for Ruby with XPath and CSS support.
- ruby-ll: an LL(1) parser generator for Ruby.
- ruby-lint: a static code analysis tool for Ruby.
- Rubinius: an implementation of the Ruby programming language.
- rubysl: Ruby standard library for Rubinius
- rubysl-socket: a pure Ruby implementation of the Ruby Socket standard library.
- OpeNER: natural language processing framework for 6 different languages.
- Ramaze: a simple, light and modular open-source web application framework written in Ruby.
- Pry: a popular REPL for Ruby.