Daniël De Vries
Senior Vehicle Simulation Engineer
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolDaniël De Vries is a Senior Vehicle Simulation Engineer with 14 years of experience blending aerospace engineering and software development to drive MDAO, KBE, and automated design-space exploration for launch vehicles and aircraft. Currently at Relativity Space, he applies systematic, code-first approaches—authoring open-source optimizers and Python bindings for legacy aerodynamics tools—to accelerate multidisciplinary optimization without relying on gradients. His background spans hands-on CFD, parametric CAD for active flow control, and production-grade simulation tooling developed at DARcorporation and Airbus, reflecting a rare fluency across research and industry. A collaborative problem-solver based in the Greater Seattle Area, Daniël aims to make tangible world-changing impact by turning complex engineering problems into reproducible, scalable software.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Minor, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Minor, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of KansasMaster's Degree, Flight Performance and Propulsion, Master's Degree, Flight Performance and Propulsion at Delft University of TechnologyUniversity Preparatory Education, Nature and Technology, University Preparatory Education, Nature and Technology at State Examination
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (40)
rails10
ruby10
html10
redis9
mvc9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
database8
disk8
perl8
strings8
nosql8
lists8
in-memory7
key-value7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
danieldevries/dotfiles
Jan 2012 - Nov 2021
Contributions:125 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 9 years 11 months
irbmac-osvimtmuxruby
danieldevries/danieldevries.github.io
Jun 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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