Bram Luyten
Co-Founder at DSpace Open Source Project
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolBram Luyten is a co-founder and software engineer with 13+ years of experience driving open-access scholarly infrastructure from Leuven, Belgium. At Atmire he leads the full sales and marketing cycle while remaining a hands-on back-end contributor to the widely used DSpace repository, focusing on robustness, metadata quality, and API stability. He combines technical depth in Java and digital-asset management with community-facing work as a DSpace committer and open-source advocate. Bram is passionate about making sales a value-added, human interaction and about using usage statistics and metadata to accelerate scientific progress. A former entrepreneur in niche markets and an e-learning collaborator with KU Leuven, he blends product-minded engineering with practical commercial and community leadership.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at KU LeuvenBerkenboom humanioraSummerschool, Summerschool at Vlerick Business SchoolMaster Computer Science, Master Computer Science at ETH Zürich
Dutch, French, German, English
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
open-source10
git-repository10
binary-repository10
package-repository10
java10
dspace10
xslt9
rest-api9
vocabulary6
hibernate6
metadata6
postgresql6
schema6
intellij-idea6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DSpace/DSpace
Aug 2012 - May 2020
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 86 commits, 46 PRs in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Bram primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the DSpace digital asset management system. Their work involved correcting DRI error conditions, addressing issues related to empty metadata fields, and improving error handling for file downloads. They also made adjustments to the REST API and database schema, and addressed minor indentation issues. Their contributions spanned Java code, XSLT files, and database schema modifications, indicating a focus on back-end functionality and system stability.
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bram-atmire/DSpace
Apr 2015 - Feb 2025
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 36 branches in 9 years 11 months
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