About Me

Published on 8-Dec-2024

Hi! My name is Gijs Burghoorn. I am passionate about Hardware Design, Security, Electronic Design Automation and contributing to open-source software.

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Education

Over the years, I studied with a primary focus on computer security, software design and cryptography. Below is an overview of all the major parts of my education.

YearUniversityProgramNote
2018 - 2020Leiden UniversityMathematicsNot Concluded
2018 - 2021Leiden UniversityComputer Science
2021 - 2022Université Grenoble AlpesInformatics
2022 - 2022TIMAResearch InternFault Injection through Clock Glitching
2022 - 2023Université Grenoble AlpesCybersecurity
2023 - 2023TIMAResearch InternMicroarchitectural Emulation & Cache Timing
2023 - 2024TU DelftPhD CandidateNot Concluded

Work

After a brief stint at the TU Delft as a PhD candidate, I started working at Polars as a Rust Software Engineer. Here, I spend most my time optimizing low-level code, fixing reported problems and extending the functionality to support a wider range of usecases. The big benefit of working at Polars is that almost all the work I do is open source. You can find that here.

Below are some other open source projects that I worked on.

Lemurs --- Terminal Login Manager

GitHub

Lemurs is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) Display/Login Managers written in Rust that works on most GNU/Linux and BSD distributions. It can work both with or without SystemD.

WaveDrom-rs --- Beautiful Programmatic Timing Diagrams in Rust

Demo | GitHub

The wavedrom-rs crate provides an interface to shape beautiful Digital Timing Diagrams into an SVG. It is almost completely compatible with the WaveDrom project. It can be merged into document build tools, continuous integration or be used as a one off to generate beautiful diagrams.

Contact

If you want/need to contact me, you can reach me at me (AT) gburghoorn (DOT) com .