Daniel Van Der Maas
Co-founder & CTO at Ellipsis Drive
Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDaniel Van Der Maas is a CTO and co-founder with nine years of experience building infrastructure for spatial data, currently leading Ellipsis Drive as the architect of its patented "Drive for spatial data." He combines a strong academic background in mathematical physics, mathematics, and physics (all with top honors) with hands-on experience deploying neural nets for satellite and street-view image analysis at Rijkswaterstaat. Daniel is adept at turning complex geospatial problems into product-ready systems, bridging research-grade algorithms and scalable engineering. His career blends startup founding grit, technical IP creation, and practical data-science applications in public-sector settings. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, he brings an unusual mix of theoretical rigor and outdoor-hardened entrepreneurship—having co-run trekking operations in Nepal while teaching advanced physics to pre-university students.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematical Physics, Master's degree, Mathematical Physics at Radboud University Nijmegen
Stackoverflow
131reputation
4kreached
3answers
9questions
Github Skills (9)
multiprocessing6
pandas6
tiff6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-s36
python6
gltf6
3d6
python-requests6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pbrand/landuse
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:209 commits, 1 push in 5 months
RWS-data-science/NWB_floating_car_data
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:54 pushes in 3 months
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