Bert Vandenbroucke
Software Lead at Bricsys®
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolBert Vandenbroucke is a software lead with 10 years of experience blending research-grade numerical modelling and high-performance computing with production software development. Trained as a PhD astrophysicist, he has transitioned academic insight into reliable engineering through roles at Leiden and Ghent Universities and now leads software at Bricsys®. He specializes in scientific computing, open-source tooling, and scaling computational workflows, often bringing rigorous validation practices from academia into industry codebases. Based in Ghent, Belgium, he is equally comfortable optimizing parallel simulations and mentoring teams on maintainable, high-performance systems. An understated strength is his track record of translating complex theoretical problems into pragmatic, reproducible software solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Master of Science (MSc) at Universiteit GentDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Ghent University
Github Skills (44)
simulation10
reduction10
mercury10
cosmology10
particle10
simulations10
gravity10
mpi10
mass-spectrometry10
orbital-mechanics10
astrophysics10
post-processing10
radiation10
hydrodynamics10
monte-carlo10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bwvdnbro/pyNFrac
Dec 2016 - Dec 2020
Python library wrapper around Sven De Rijcke's neutral fraction tables.
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
python-librarysvenpythonfractionwrapper-library
bwvdnbro/dr-bingo
Jun 2016 - Nov 2019
A script to generate a random word bingo for PhD defences
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 5 months
phdrandom-wordbingo
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