Eric Dortmans
Volunteer at Océ Museum
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Dortmans is an ICT professional with over four decades of experience bridging academic research, corporate R&D, and teaching, now focused on robotics as a self-employed roboticist and volunteer at the Océ Museum. He has held roles from research scientist to software architect, team and project leader, and senior lecturer, specializing in software architecture, model-driven development, embedded systems, industrial automation, and robotics. Known for thriving on technically deep challenges, he combines hands-on development with a passion for explaining complex concepts and mentoring students and teams. His career includes long tenures at Océ-Technologies and Fontys University, reflecting sustained contributions to applied research and curriculum development. Based in Eindhoven, he blends practical industrial insight with academic rigor, often favoring projects that enable learning, presentation, and advisory work. An unusually broad profile, he pairs legacy institutional experience dating to the late 1970s with current hands-on robotics practice.
12 years of coding experience
43 years of employment as a software developer
MSc (ir), MSc (ir) at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Github Skills (9)
embedded-linux9
buildroot8
embedded7
software-update7
linux7
in-progress6
ros5
robotics4
cpp2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dortmans/ros_examples
Feb 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 5 years 7 months
dortmans/dortmans.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:9 pushes in 7 years
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