Willem Melder
Data Engineer
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWillem Melder is a data engineer with over a decade of experience applying AI and speech technology to improve access to audiovisual archives at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. He has led projects that convert radio to text via speech recognition, ingest teletext subtitles, integrate shared audiovisual thesauri, and expose archival metadata via OAI-PMH, blending research and production delivery. Earlier roles include building affective computing demonstrators at TNO and co-founding a spoken-dialogue startup, giving him rare hands-on expertise across speech systems, user-facing demos, and archival metadata pipelines. Based in the Randstad, he combines academic training in Cognitive AI with practical project leadership, and often works at the intersection of R&D and real-world deployment. An understated strength is his long track record of translating experimental speech research into robust, operational services.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, MSc, Cognitive Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht UniversityDr. F.H. de Bruyne Lyceum
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Github Skills (55)
serializer10
catalog9
skos9
linked-data9
rdflib9
graph9
semantic-web9
parser9
uri9
api9
open-data9
ckan9
sparql9
pypi9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
beeldengeluid/beng-lod-server
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
LOD server for B&G catalogue
Contributions:116 reviews, 506 commits, 122 PRs in 4 years 1 month
cataloguelod
beeldengeluid/comunica-web-client
Nov 2021 - Jun 2026
A Web-based client to query the Web of Linked Data, using SPARQL or GraphQL-LD, powered by Comunica.
Contributions:3 reviews, 16 PRs, 49 pushes in 4 years 8 months
graphqllinked-datasparql
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