Experience
- Software Engineer
- ProSafCo sells and customizes safety equipment like work shoes, welding glasses and hearing protection. As a software engineer, I write software that keeps track of the inventory, makes it more convenient to customize, ensure that the data is loaded and correct, and make the system more robust and scalable.
- R&D Software Engineer
- Transics is a company that develops fleet management solutions. As an R&D software engineer, I implemented new features, fixed bugs and made the system more scalable and reliable.
- Senior Python developer
Developers.nl is a consultant company that focusses op PHP and Python. As a senior Python developer.
I worked as a consultant for a company that made software that made a toolchain for lawyers, including time management, billing, archiving, etc. using Django.
- Technical Lead Developer
ScriptBook is an artificial intelligence startup that performs research on how much profit a movie will make, based on the film script. This is done through modeling several properties of the script, and analysis of the characters playing a part in that script.
As a technical lead developer, I fixed bugs, improved overall quality of the product, and proposed changes.
- Data Scientist
ScriptBook is an artificial intelligence startup that performs research on how much profit a movie will make, based on the film script. This is done through modeling several properties of the script, and analysis of the characters playing a part in that script.
As a data scientist I developed models to make predictions, draw concolusions, improve the accuracy of existing models, and improved the overall quality of the software.
- PhD Student
As a PhD. student, I did research in the field of (parallel) metaheuristics and hyper-heuristics.
I developed a model based on input-output hidden Markov models to collect statistics to select what heuristic to run next. This algorithm won an award at the Cross-domain Heuristic Search Challenge.
Furthermore I transformed Gecode into a program that could create heuristics: based on the constraints that MiniZinc offered, heuristics were constructed to enforce certain constraints, sometimes at the expense of other constraints.
I did not finish my PhD.
Education
- MSc. in Civil Engineering
I obtained a master in civil engineering in computer science with a specialization in Artificial intelligence at KU Leuven
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Study topics included:- machine learning;
- natural language processing;
- compiler design;
- computer graphics; and
- computer vision.
- BSc. in Informatics
I optained a bachelor of science in informatics at KU Leuven. The first two years I studied in Kortrijk, the last year I studied in Leuven.
Study topics included:
- datastructures and algorithms;
- databases;
- computer networks;
- programming paradigms; and
- automata and computability.
Technologies
- Programming languages
- Frameworks and Libraries
- Databases
- Subversioning
Open Source
Below a non-exhaustive list of open source projects I maintain:
- django-antipatterns
- A website that contains common patterns and anti-patterns in Django.
- unicode-tricks
- A software package written in Haskell to convert items into unicode characters.
- css-selectors
- Compile-time validation of a CSS selector in Haskell.
- ordinal
- Convert numbers into words, based on Python's num2words.
- slugify
- A package that converts text to slugs that are used in URIs.
Besides maintaining packages, I often contribute on other open source projects with bugfixes and code improvements.
Awards
- Flemish Programming Contest
- 3rd place 2023 (4th category)
- 2nd place 2019 (4th category)
- 2nd place 2018 (4th category)
- 3rd place 2017 (4th category)
- 2nd place 2015 (4th category)
- 2nd place 2014 (4th category)
- 3rd place 2012 (3rd category)
- 1st place 2011 (2nd category)
- 1st place 2009 (1st category)
- Cross-domain Heuristic Search Challenge
- First place on the CHeSC 2014 for the parallel track.
- Golden Chalks
- Third place for best teaching assistant computer science (2015).
Contributions
Mainly contributions to the Haskell ecosystem. Some utility packages are published on Hackage.
On StackOverflow, I answered ≈ questions, mainly about Django, Haskell, and Python.
During my years in college, I wrote two course texts about Artificial intelligence and Digital Elektronics and Processors.
