Erik W
Data Engineer Data Science Consultant
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolErik W is a Netherlands-based data engineer and data science consultant with 10 years of experience building cloud-native data platforms, ML pipelines, and CI/CD-driven software tools. As a tech lead at Datacation he architects data warehouses, medallion-style data models, and production chatbots while creating developer templates, workflows, and technical guides to raise team delivery and quality. His background spans embedded systems, autonomous driving simulators, and cybersecurity research, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems insight and high-level data engineering practice. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like SerenityOS, focusing on porting and modernizing build systems and libraries—an indication of strong systems and build-engineering chops beyond typical data roles. Comfortable across Python, C++, Azure, Docker, and CI tooling, he moves seamlessly between research, prototyping, and productionization. Curious and entrepreneurial, he’s combined academic rigor with hands-on startup and engineering roles to solve practical problems across industries.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Summerschool, Summerschool at Università di TrentoBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at Delft University of TechnologyMaster of Science - MSc, ICT Innovation - Embedded Systems, Master of Science - MSc, ICT Innovation - Embedded Systems at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyVWO-diploma (Pre-Scientific Education), Natuur en Techniek (Nature and Technology), VWO-diploma (Pre-Scientific Education), Natuur en Techniek (Nature and Technology) at Strabrecht College GeldropMaster of Science - MSc, Embedded Systems, Master of Science - MSc, Embedded Systems at Eindhoven University of Technology
Github Skills (12)
bash10
software-update10
software-packaging10
cmake10
live-update10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
operating-system10
c119
kernel9
build-system9
c179
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
SerenityOS/serenity
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build EngineerContributions:101 reviews, 109 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily focused on porting and updating external libraries, mainly for the SerenityOS's ports system. Their contributions include updating zstd, libtheora, cmatrix, libuv, cmake, libgpg-error, gsl, SDL2_ttf, dialog, libtool, mrsh, brogue, libatomic_ops, ccache, diffutils, nano, klong, libxml2, imagemagick, ninja, pt2-clone, libuuid, wget, fontconfig, ed, flatbuffers, SDL_sound, libarchive, readline, c-ray, genemu, bc, ca-certificates, grep, zsh, hatari, sqlite, libexpat, gawk, tcl, SDL2-GNUBoy, libgcrypt, freetype, libmodplug, byacc, libyaml, libmad, and several others. They also addressed dependency issues and performed build system improvements.
operating-systemc-plus-plusosunixdesktop-environment
EWouters/serenity
Nov 2021 - Aug 2024
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Contributions:173 pushes, 75 branches in 2 years 9 months
kernelserenityoperating-systemlinuxoperating
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