Bart Louwers
Afdelingshoofd Inkoop En Contractmanagemenf at Gemeente Eindhoven
North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBart Louwers is a public procurement and contract management leader with 11+ years of experience steering procurement, legal and quality functions across Dutch municipal and provincial government, now heading Inkoop en Contractmanagement at Gemeente Eindhoven. He combines deep expertise in Dutch administrative law, state aid and subsidies with hands-on project leadership—from transformation programs to legal learning portals—bringing practical, auditable solutions to complex public-sector problems. A social liberal democrat and strategic thinker, he blends political theory and public policy insight with pragmatic management of procurement processes and compliance. He also maintains a technical side as an Android contributor to the well-known MapLibre Native open-source mapping project, showing an unusual mix of legal/administrative leadership and mobile developer chops. Based in North Brabant, Bart is comfortable shifting between interim legal leadership, international affairs and long-term quality governance roles. His recent postgraduate specialization in aanbestedingsrecht (procurement law) underscores a continual commitment to professional development in his field.
11 years of coding experience
Sondervick collegeLLM Dutch administrative law, LLM Dutch administrative law at University of AmsterdamPostgraduate Degree Aanbestedingsrecht, Postgraduate Degree Aanbestedingsrecht at Grotius Academie
English, German, French
Github Skills (10)
kotlin10
javas10
maps10
maplibre-gl10
android10
java10
gradlew9
gradle9
vector-tiles9
junit7
Programming languages (39)
Github contributions (5)
maplibre/maplibre-native
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
MapLibre Native - Interactive vector tile maps for iOS, Android and other platforms.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:2 releases, 1471 reviews, 16 commits in 22 days
Contributions summary:Bart primarily contributed to the Android platform of the MapLibre Native project. Their work included replacing Mapbox-specific elements (watermarks, resource names) with Maplibre equivalents, modifying the location component options and fixing Ktlint Gradle integration. Additionally, the user addressed the removal of deprecated dependencies, such as junit.framework.Assert, and improved test app functionality.
mapbox-android-sdkmaplibre-glmaplibremapboxmapbox-gl
louwers/maplibre-native
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
The open alternative to Mapbox GL Native. SDKs for iOS, Android and other platforms
Contributions:32 PRs, 1144 pushes, 645 branches in 2 years 3 months
mapboxmapbox-glios-androidplatformssdks
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