Thijs Van Beek
EPFL AI Platform
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolThijs Van Beek is a seasoned Full Stack Developer and UI/UX-minded engineer with 11 years of experience building data-rich web applications using Node.js, Express and React. Based in Lausanne, he currently develops research-focused platforms at EPFL and has a strong track record delivering interactive visualizations and real‑time tools for academic projects such as viral phylogeny and large-scale digitized newspaper exploration. His background blends industrial design training with hands-on engineering, enabling him to turn complex datasets into usable, researched-driven interfaces and APIs. Thijs has repeatedly bridged humanities and tech—implementing databases, IIIF image endpoints, Solr/Neo4j integrations and middle-layer APIs—to help historians and scientists ask new questions of their data. Colleagues value his ability to move from prototyping to production while keeping user needs central, a skill honed across museums, universities and industry clients.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Industrieel ontwerpen (Industrial design) / Industrieel product ontwerpen, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Industrieel ontwerpen (Industrial design) / Industrieel product ontwerpen at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
English, Dutch, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (81)
cart10
information-extraction10
javascript10
js10
shopping-cart10
php10
opencart10
iiif9
ecommerce9
genome-annotation9
frontend9
information-retrieval9
natural-language-processing9
language-model8
genomics8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tvanbeek/express-iiif
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
express-iiif is Express.js middleware to provide your application with a IIIF server
Contributions:7 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
expressjsiiifmiddleware
epflgraph/graphsearch_widgets
Nov 2023 - Nov 2024
Graph Search Web Components library
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 34 pushes in 11 months
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