Erwin Sterrenburg
Consultant Geo Information Management
Overijssel, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolErwin Sterrenburg is a Consultant in Geo Information Management with 13 years' experience applying water engineering, computational modeling and GIS to real-world resource challenges. He holds a cum laude MSc in Water Engineering & Management and blends domain expertise—agent-based and hydrological modeling—with practical data-science skills in Python, MatLab and ArcGIS. At Royal HaskoningDHV he translates complex water-management questions into reproducible models and data workflows, building on early research integrating NetLogo agent models with hydrological systems. Erwin also contributes to open-source geospatial tooling—adding robust geometry operations and tests to the widely used Shapely library—highlighting a pragmatic focus on correctness and reuse. Based in Overijssel, he combines academic rigor with consultancy impact, often surfacing policy-relevant insights from detailed simulation work.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BSc, Civil Engineering, BSc, Civil Engineering at University of TwenteMSc, Water Engineering & Management (cum laude), MSc, Water Engineering & Management (cum laude) at Universiteit Twente
Github Skills (4)
shapely10
python10
testing10
geometry9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shapely/shapely
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Manipulation and analysis of geometric objects
Role in this project:
Backend Developer / QA Engineer
Backend Developer / QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Erwin primarily focused on adding new functionality and testing to the `shapely/shapely` project, specifically related to a new "substring" operation. They implemented the "substring" operation, which retrieves a line segment along a linear geometry based on start and end distances. The user also wrote comprehensive tests for the new operation, covering various scenarios to ensure its correctness. Furthermore, they extended documentation and tests for the `interpolate` function.
manipulationgeometricpythongeometry
ADB-SPADE/geonode
Apr 2018 - Mar 2023
GeoNode is an open source platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and collaborative use of geospatial data.
Contributions:18 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years
wcswpspythongeospatialgeonode
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