Bouwe Andela
Research Software Engineer at Netherlands eScience Center
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBouwe Andela is a research software engineer in Amsterdam with eight years of experience building pragmatic, well-tested Python software for scientific research and the space industry. At the Netherlands eScience Center he helps teams improve code quality and delivery, drawing on prior roles supporting ESA Sentinel missions and instrument calibration work. He combines dual MSc degrees in Theoretical Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics with hands-on engineering, translating complex scientific requirements into reliable software. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed tricky formatting bugs and added tests to the widely used google/yapf Python formatter—evidence of his focus on maintainability and tooling. Colleagues value his collaborative approach and preference for clean, practical solutions over cleverness for its own sake.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Theoretical Physics, Master of Science, Theoretical Physics at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch, Spanish, French, German
Github Skills (5)
yapf10
python10
code-formatting10
testing10
git9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
google/yapf
Aug 2017 - Aug 2021
A formatter for Python files
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bouwe primarily contributed to the `yapf` project by addressing bug fixes and merging updates. Their work involved modifications to the `comment_splicer.py` file, aiming to improve comment handling, especially with nested indentation and complex comment structures. The user also integrated changes from the master branch and added tests for specific issues, demonstrating a focus on code quality and addressing identified problems. Furthermore, the user implemented a new command and updated the setup and README files.
googleformatterpython-filespython
bouweandela/dask
Jun 2019 - Jun 2024
Parallel computing with task scheduling
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years
schedulingparalleldistributed-computingtask-schedulingparallel-processing
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