Bertjan Broeksema
Engineering Manager at Recharge
Geldermalsen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBertjan Broeksema is an engineering manager and technical leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building data platforms, ML deployment pipelines, and data-driven products across retail, finance, and energy sectors. He combines a PhD in visual analytics with practical delivery expertise—leading platform design at ING, IKEA and MN, automating ML model deployment from 90 to 5 days, and migrating Azure pipelines to DBT/Databricks/Dagster at Skoon. As founder and managing director of consultancy practices he translates strategic goals into repeatable engineering practices, governance frameworks, and stream-aligned teams that reduce rework and accelerate time-to-value. Comfortable both in code and in boardroom discussions (EMBA), he also contributes to open-source visualization tooling, having implemented interactive selection features in a D3-based parallel coordinates plot. Based in the Netherlands, he’s known for reshaping organizational ownership of data products while keeping a strong bias toward automation, testing, and measurable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBSc. Computer Science, BSc. Computer Science at Saxion University of Applied SciencesExecutive Master of Business Administration - EMBA, Executive Master of Business Administration - EMBA at Nyenrode Business UniversityBsc. Computer Science, Bsc. Computer Science at HanzeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Visual Analytics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Visual Analytics at University of Groningen
Dutch, English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
data-visualizations10
javascript10
data-visualisation10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
data-visualization10
d3js10
user-interface9
graphical-user-interface9
html9
css8
javac6
jquery6
distributions6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
syntagmatic/parallel-coordinates
Aug 2014 - Jun 2015
A d3-based parallel coordinates plot in canvas. This library is no longer actively developed.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:91 commits, 5 PRs, 9 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Bertjan primarily contributed to the user interface and interactive elements of the d3-based parallel coordinates plot. Their work involved modifying and adding code related to "pinch" and "strum" selection features, allowing users to interactively select data points within the visualization. The user added a new example to demonstrate the strum selection and made it possible to remove strums via a click.
svgparallelcanvasplotparallel-coordinates-plot
BigDataRepublic/hdp-installation-notes
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
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