Summary
Eelco Van Vliet is a Senior Software Engineer with a PhD in Applied Physics and 12 years of industry experience building numerical models, Python tooling, and engineering decision-support systems for offshore, steelmaking, and national statistics organizations. He combines deep expertise in CFD and OpenFOAM with pragmatic software development—creating production Python pipelines for web-scraping, machine-learning driven record linkage, and real-time monitoring systems. His background spans academic high-performance simulation (LB-LES, laser diagnostics) to delivering customer-facing analytics and process optimizations at Tata Steel, Heerema, and the Dutch statistics bureau. Known for clear communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration, he has a track record of initiating tooling and training that scaled technical capability across teams. Based in Zoetermeer, he brings a rare blend of experimental fluid-mechanics insight and hands-on software engineering for complex, data-rich systems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Applied Physics, PhD, Applied Physics at Delft University of Technology
English, Dutch, Spanish