Daan Van Vugt
Founder at Ignition Computing
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDaan Van Vugt is a founder and technical leader with 12 years of experience building high-performance computing solutions for physics and full-stack web applications. He combines deep academic training—as a PhD candidate in nuclear fusion and cum laude MSc in Applied Physics—with practical entrepreneurship as CEO of Ignition Computing and co-owner/CTO roles at Afterservice and Tracklete. His background spans advanced simulation work (hybrid MHD–particle codes for tokamak ELMs) and hands-on web engineering across many stacks, enabling him to move fluidly between numerically intensive HPC projects and product-focused software. Known for turning complex physical models into efficient, production-ready code, he brings a rare mix of scientific rigor and startup execution from his Eindhoven base.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Eindhoven University of TechnologyGymnasium, Natuur & Techniek, Gymnasium, Natuur & Techniek at Titus Brandsma Lyceum
Dutch, English, German, French
Github Skills (153)
python10
windows10
autocomplete10
scientific-computing10
linux10
tesseractjs10
hetzner-cloud10
macos10
build-tools10
crystal-lang10
hpc10
pandas9
websocket-client9
html9
compiler9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DaanVanVugt/flogging
Sep 2015 - Feb 2021
A Fortran logging system with MPI support
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 24 commits in 5 years 6 months
fortranloggingmpi
DaanVanVugt/h5pickle
Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
Wrapper for h5py with pickle capabilities
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 4 months
h5py
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