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Frank van de Pol

Data / ML Engineer

// dominican republic, do · UTC-4

Building in the open from Dominican Republic. Data / ML Engineer.

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Veteran C++/Arduino tinkerer with real upstream OSS contributions, mostly via forks

assessed from open-source footprint

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A long-tenured developer (14+ year account) working in C++, Arduino and embedded/systems territory, with disciplines 80% systems-oriented. Authorship is the strongest signal in this batch: 26 merged PRs including upstream work on moodlebox/moodlebox.net. Original work is led by MM-ExportITunesLibraryXml, a MediaMonkey script (10 stars), but the overall profile is fork-heavy (~0.86 fork ratio) with a high abandoned ratio. A genuine contributor whose public surface is more forks and stars than maintained original projects.

Authorship & open source

Solo authorwrote 100% of commits on Arduino
26 merged PRs37 commits / yr1 external project

Contributes to

  • moodlebox/moodlebox.net25

What they build

Systems80%
Backend10%
Data / ML10%

Industry experience

  • Developer Tools
  • IoT & Hardware
  • Fintech & Payments

Signal breakdown

Originality26
Impact73
Consistency60
Polish35
Stars

14

top repo 10

Original repos

8

86% forks

Followers

4

On GitHub

14.2 yr

Live demos

0

Activity

Active

88% stale

Strengths

  • Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on Arduino
  • 26 merged pull requests
  • Systems focus with Backend
  • Domain experience in Developer Tools & IoT & Hardware
  • Core stack: C++, Arduino, Python, Visual Basic