Ben Abelshausen
Co-Founder at ANYWAYS
Lille, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Abelshausen is a co-founder and seasoned route-planning engineer with 13 years building mobility solutions and routing products from startups to consultancy clients across Belgium. He leads ANYWAYS and Itinero BVBA, applying deep GIS and .NET expertise to practical tools that leverage OpenStreetMap and open-source libraries like OsmSharp and NetTopologySuite. His background spans hands-on C#/Java development, traffic modelling integrations, and UX-driven demos, plus experience modernizing legacy systems and portable library refactors. An active open-source maintainer, he’s fixed GeoJSON parsing issues and improved portability/dependency management in widely used GIS projects, reflecting a focus on reliability and reproducible builds. Based between Lille and Antwerp, he combines academic training in computer science and embedded systems with a pragmatic, product-oriented approach to shared mobility challenges.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Embedded Systems, Master, Computer Science, Embedded Systems at Universiteit GentMaster, Informatics, Master, Informatics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (14)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
gis10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
jts9
topology8
geojson8
standard-library7
common-library7
pcl7
c-library7
git6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
NetTopologySuite/NetTopologySuite
Dec 2013 - Aug 2017
A .NET GIS solution that is fast and reliable for the .NET platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the .NET GIS solution, addressing issues related to portability and dependencies. They updated existing code, including exceptions and the GMLReader, and made changes to project files to support portable class libraries (PCL). Furthermore, they fixed dependencies, added a gitignore file, and incorporated a PowerCollections submodule, indicating attention to project setup and library management. Additionally, the user addressed a GeoJSON parsing issue, improving data handling within the library.
dotnetntsjts-topology-suitetopologysfs
OsmSharp/routing
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:176 pushes, 9 branches, 5 comments in 11 months
routerrouting
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