Alex Brandsen
Interoperability Project Lead - TDCC SSH at DANS
Oegstgeest, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAlex Brandsen is an interoperability-focused technologist who combines a PhD in Digital Archaeology with nine years of hands-on web development and research experience. Currently leading interoperability projects at the Thematic Digital Competency Centre (TDCC SSH) at DANS, he builds multilingual, semantic search and text-mining solutions to surface insights from archaeological grey literature. His work on AGNES and the EXALT project bridges academic research and production-grade engineering, spanning front- and back-end development, server maintenance, and client liaison. Trained as an archaeologist but fluent in modern web stacks and tooling, he has a proven track record of turning domain-specific research problems into usable search engines and data services. Based in Oegstgeest, Netherlands, he brings a rare mix of disciplinary depth and practical software craftsmanship that enables cross-institutional data discovery. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex scholarly needs into interoperable, multilingual systems that scale beyond a single collection.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Archaeology, Grade: 7.5 of 10, BA, Archaeology, Grade: 7.5 of 10 at Leiden UniversityMSc, Archaeological Information Systems, First Degree, MSc, Archaeological Information Systems, First Degree at University of YorkVWO, Economics and Society, VWO, Economics and Society at Werenfridus
Dutch, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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155reached
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Github Skills (30)
word2vec9
fasttext9
gensim9
topic-modeling9
nlp8
glove8
corpus8
word-embeddings8
data-mining8
lda8
latent-dirichlet-allocation8
machine-learning7
information-retrieval7
natural-language-processing7
python7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexbrandsen/Text-Analysis-for-Humanities-research
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
alexbrandsen/archaeo-document-classification-dataset
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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