Bert Van Nuffelen
Data Interoperability Expert
Antwerp Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolBert Van Nuffelen is a Data Interoperability Expert with over 12 years of experience designing semantic, knowledge-intensive systems that make business logic portable and future-proof. He holds a PhD in Knowledge Engineering and built an abductive solver during his research, blending formal logic with practical Constraint Logic Programming. At TenForce and now Digitaal Vlaanderen he has led Linked Open Data architectures and European research initiatives that bridge technological, semantic and organizational layers for sustainable data exchange. Bert emphasizes automation (deployment-as-code, containerization) and source-controlled content to enable scalable interoperability, and brings rare depth in both academic formalism and client-facing solution delivery. Based in Antwerp, he combines a research mindset with hands-on engineering and project leadership to turn complex domain knowledge into interoperable, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Latijn-Wiskunde, Latijn-Wiskunde at Sint Jan Berchmanscollege DiestDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Knowledge Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Knowledge Engineering at Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenErasmus Exchange, Computer Science, Erasmus Exchange, Computer Science at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Dutch, English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (180)
oslo10
virtuoso10
application-profile10
dcat10
maintenance10
open-data10
oslothema10
javascript9
api9
command-line-interface9
specification9
shacl9
representations9
hosting9
owl9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Informatievlaanderen/OSLOthema-DCATAPVlaanderen
Jul 2019 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 48 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 9 months
oslothema
Informatievlaanderen/OSLO-wegenenverkeer-generated
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:237 pushes, 5 branches, 231 tags in 3 years 3 months
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