Dieter De Paepe
Software Engineer at NGDATA
Zemst, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolDieter De Paepe is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building production-grade systems at the intersection of AI, machine learning and big data. He combines academic rigor from a PhD-level background with hands-on product engineering, having moved from semantic web and anomaly-detection research at UGent to applied software roles at Comsof and now NGDATA. His strengths lie in algorithm design, performance-focused architecture and automating complex tasks—skills proven while leading technical advances for FiberPlanIT and optimizing large-scale retrieval and anomaly-detection pipelines. Comfortable in both research and product environments, he bridges theory and practice to turn data-driven ideas into reliable software. Based in Zemst, Belgium, he prefers solutions where machines take on repetitive complexity so humans can focus on higher-value work. An understated detail: his career shows a pattern of turning research prototypes into deployable, high-performance products.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at UGentEmmaüsinstituut
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (152)
hbase10
traveling-salesman10
python10
solver10
geojson10
scheduling10
oslo10
concurrency10
optimization10
non-blocking10
metaheuristics10
reactive10
local-search10
pandas10
vehicle-routing-problem10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Informatievlaanderen/OSLO-EA-to-RDF
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:71 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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predict-idlab/seriesdistancematrix
Jun 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:105 commits, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 3 months
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