Summary
Ashkan Ashkpour is a Senior Data Architect and researcher based in the Netherlands with 11 years of professional experience building harmonized, auditable data solutions across government and academia. Currently leading data architecture at Gemeente Delft, he combines practical data modeling and management with a research pedigree in Semantic Web technologies from a PhD on historical census harmonization. His background spans integration of structured and unstructured data, Linked Open Data, longitudinal databases and digital humanities—skills he applied as a postdoc to curate socio-economic datasets across time and space. Comfortable bridging technical and domain teams, he also has entrepreneurial and media-production experience, reflecting a knack for communicating complex data stories to diverse audiences.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B-ICT, Bedrijfskundige Informatica, B-ICT, Bedrijfskundige Informatica at Inholland University of Applied Sciences
Havo, Economie & Maatschappij, Havo, Economie & Maatschappij at Grotius College Delft
Msc., Economics & Informatics, 8.5, Msc., Economics & Informatics, 8.5 at Erasmus University Rotterdam
English, Dutch, Persian