Douwe Horsthuis
Senior Data Analyst
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDouwe Horsthuis is a senior data analyst at Dienst Toeslagen in Utrecht with five years of experience turning complex datasets into reliable automated decisions for a national childcare benefits system. He transitioned from a background in elementary education to running an EEG lab and contributing to published cognitive neurophysiology research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, bringing a rare combination of teaching, research rigor, and production analytics. At Toeslagen he manages the automated checks that authorize benefits for roughly 96% of recipients, focusing on data quality, cross-department collaboration, and scalable process improvements. Known for stepping into leadership through an on-the-job senior apprenticeship, he balances technical depth with project management and stakeholder coordination. Outside work he volunteers with Stichting Humanitas, applying his interpersonal skills to reduce loneliness among the elderly.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Education - BEd, Elementary Education and Teaching, Bachelor of Education - BEd, Elementary Education and Teaching at Saxion University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English, German, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
102reputation
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6questions
Github Skills (57)
eeglab10
r9
r-package9
matlab9
frequency-analysis9
pipeline9
raw-data9
neuroscience9
experiment8
knitr8
octave8
eye-tracking8
electrophysiology8
statistics8
morph7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CognitiveNeuroLab/Pipeline_EEG_to_ERP_EEGlab_stats_R
May 2021 - Mar 2024
General pipeline used for analyzing EEG data where Raw EEG data gets transformed into ERPS and Stats are done in R (Mixed effects models)
Contributions:6 PRs, 26 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
analyzingmixed-effects-modelspipelinemixed-effectsstats
CognitiveNeuroLab/.github
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:33 PRs, 81 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 7 months
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