Dirk Gorissen
Product Pathfinding & (Tech)BD
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDirk Gorissen is a product and technical business-development leader with 15+ years delivering autonomy and robotics solutions across startups, labs and enterprise programs. He has driven product strategy and built teams for end-to-end embodied AI systems—from the world’s first 3D-printed drone to production-grade AI Driver platforms and multi-£100m OEM partnerships—combining hands-on engineering, machine learning, and commercial negotiation. Pragmatic and impact-focused, he translates market insights into technically viable roadmaps and has repeatedly acted as the technical bridge in C-suite and customer engagements. Dirk contributes to open-source tooling (notably pycel for compiling Excel to Python) and retains deep systems expertise from perception and ML frameworks to CI/CD and safety-critical integration. He is motivated by social and environmental impact, tinkers with robotics and 3D printing in his spare time, and helped found the UK Society of Research Software Engineers.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master Artificial Intelligence, Master Artificial Intelligence at KU LeuvenMaster Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Master Post Graduate Certificate in Education at University of AntwerpPhD Computational Engineering, PhD Computational Engineering at Ghent UniversityGCSE Languages and Science, GCSE Languages and Science at Bishop Mackenzie International School
German, French, Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
lib10
python10
excel10
multithreading9
rabbitmq9
multiprocessing9
datastructures-algorithms8
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms8
algorithm8
video-streaming6
api6
lamp6
css6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dgorissen/pycel
Oct 2011 - Jul 2022
A library for compiling excel spreadsheets to python code & visualizing them as a graph
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 25 PRs, 22 pushes in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dirk primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `pycel` library. They made numerous code cleanups, added support for new excel functions, and fixed several bugs related to imports and comparisons. The user also added an Excel addin with PyXLL, suggesting a focus on integrating the library with Excel. These changes involved significant modifications to the core logic for compiling and processing excel spreadsheets.
python-codespreadsheetspythonvisualizinggraph
dgorissen/arduino
Mar 2020 - Dec 2024
Misc arduino projects
Contributions:4 PRs, 214 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years 10 months
miscarduino
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