“I had the pleasure of working as part of John’s team at Franklin.ai. John is an exceptional technical and people leader who consistently delivers high-quality outcomes through well-considered technical solutions. He has a strong ability to clearly articulate requirements while thoughtfully balancing both team needs and broader business objectives. John is always seeking opportunities to upskill himself and those around him, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. On a personal level, John is someone I always felt comfortable approaching for guidance or feedback — he is supportive, articulate, and genuinely invested in the growth and success of the people he works with.”
John Vandenberg
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Application Packager
openSUSE Project
- Present 7 years
Science and Technology
I have packaged hundreds of packages for openSUSE, and continue to maintain over a hundred, mostly Python, but also R and Rust, and several X.
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Arbitration Committee member
English Wikipedia
- 1 year
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Arbitration Committee
English Wikipedia
- 10 months
Education
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Administrator
English Wikipedia
- 12 years
Education
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Administrator
English Wikisource
- 12 years
Education
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I.T. manager; technical advisor
Wikimedia Indonesia
- 4 years
Education
Maintained web infrastructure
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Technical support
Cipta Media Bersama
- less than a year
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4732358/
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Mentor
12 Buckets Inc
- 5 months
Education
Mentoring socially-struggling primary school students one-on-one during school hours.
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Secretary
Highgate Primary School Parents & Citizens committee
- Present 2 years 10 months
Education
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Port Apache Web Server to msys/MinGW
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See projectAfter porting APR to msys, this follow up project allowed building Apache on msys, removing the need to have VC++ on Windows.
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IeUnit
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See projectFixed many bugs to allow automated testing using Internet Explorer 4/5.
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Ported Apache Portable Runtime (APR) to MinGW
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See projectEmails: https://marc.info/?l=apr-dev&w=2&r=1&s=vandenberg&q=b
Related: Acknowledgement in O'Reilly's C++ Cookbook for assistance regarding MinGW/MSYS.
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Bugzilla enhancements
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See projectMany enhancements, including
- e-mail address update https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23067
- PatchReader https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115910
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Ported Mozilla to IRIX gcc
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See projecte.g. XPCOM MIPS assembly fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79362
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79282 is another notable example for MIPS, which resulted in https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3047 being raised.
22 bugs at…e.g. XPCOM MIPS assembly fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79362
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79282 is another notable example for MIPS, which resulted in https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3047 being raised.
22 bugs at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&rep_platform=SGI&emailassigned_to1=1&emailreporter1=1&emailqa_contact1=1&emailcc1=1&emaillongdesc1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=johnv%40adacel.com.au
27 bugs at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&rep_platform=SGI&emailassigned_to1=1&emailreporter1=1&emailqa_contact1=1&emailcc1=1&emaillongdesc1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=jayvdb@gmail.com
Honors & Awards
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Excellence Award
Callista Software Services
. Awarded for sustained performance over a period
of time at a level “above and beyond the call of duty”
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Indonesian
Elementary proficiency
Organizations
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quilt
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http://savannah.nongnu.org/project/memberlist.php?group=quilt
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