Dries Van Ransbeeck
Co-Founder at Welcome To My Garden
Brussels, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolDries Van Ransbeeck is a mission-driven founder and community builder with nine years of experience turning open-data and civic-tech insights into tangible, people-first travel and sustainability initiatives. As co-founder of Welcome To My Garden and Slow Travel Pass he has grown grassroots platforms that make slow travel and community hospitality accessible to tens of thousands across Europe, blending product thinking with grassroots mobilization. His background leading Open Knowledge Belgium and projects like the Bike Data Project reflects a data-informed approach to civic problems, from publishing millions of cycling kilometers to designing inclusive programs such as HackYourFuture Belgium. Comfortable at the intersection of nonprofit impact, platform growth and urban sustainability, he pairs analytical roots in financial data modeling with a knack for scaling volunteer-driven networks. Notably, his work often surfaces non-obvious leverage: turning supply-chain and mobility research into community-led travel solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Commercial Sciences - Financial Management, Master's degree Commercial Sciences - Financial Management at KU LeuvenProfessional Bachelor's degree Business Management - Marketing, Professional Bachelor's degree Business Management - Marketing at Lessius Hogeschool MechelenSecondary school Economics and Modern Languages, Secondary school Economics and Modern Languages at Sint-Theresiacollege Kapelle-op-den-BosMaster's degree Erasmus exchange program, Master's degree Erasmus exchange program at ZHAW School of Management and Law
Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
camping10
react8
crossword7
ancestry6
garden6
javascript5
css4
html4
nextjs3
creative-commons2
jekyll2
open-source1
strava1
management1
slack1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Driesvanransbeeck/womendontcycle
Jan 2022 - Sep 2023
One-pager for the film Women Don't Cycle - From Brussels to Tokyo, these women prove the opposite.
Contributions:1 PR, 210 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
bikedataproject/wiki
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
The bike data project wiki
Contributions:19 commits in 2 months
crossworddocumenationproject-wikiancestrybike-data
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