Bart Van Den Eijnden
Solution Architect GIS at Rijkswaterstaat
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBart Van Den Eijnden is a Solution Architect GIS with 17 years of experience specializing in frontend development for geospatial and web mapping applications, now applying that expertise at Rijkswaterstaat. He combines deep knowledge of open-source GIS stacks (Mapserver, Geoserver, OpenLayers, Mapbox GL JS) and OGC standards with hands-on coding, testing discipline, and tech-lead responsibilities. Comfortable working autonomously or cross-functionally with backend, product and UI/UX teams, he frequently organizes work packages and mentors others while troubleshooting complex spatial problems. A long-time open-source contributor, he has improved OpenLayers v2 parsing and WMS handling—work that reflects an eye for interoperability and legacy compatibility. Trained in physical geography and hydrology, he brings domain grounding to technical designs that balance scientific correctness with production-quality code.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Physical Geography, Hydrology and Land Degradation, Physical Geography, Hydrology and Land Degradation at Utrecht UniversityVWO (A-level), VWO (A-level) at Peelland College Deurne
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (6)
wms10
javascript10
webmap10
gis10
testing9
gml7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openlayers/ol2
Jul 2009 - Dec 2015
OpenLayers v2 - deprecated!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:208 commits, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bart contributed to parsing and handling WMS DescribeLayer format for OpenLayers v2, adding the capability to extract layer names. The user also implemented parsing of ScaleHint values within WMS GetCapabilities responses to support proper display scaling. Furthermore, the user fixed an issue with WMC format writing and improved the handling of WMS GetFeatureInfo requests, including correct format parameters and adjustments for WMS 1.3. These changes involved modifications to both Javascript libraries and associated testing files.
javascriptopenlayers
bartvde/story-tools
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:211 pushes, 162 branches in 7 months
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