Eryk Kulikowski
Senior Software Architect at Harvard University
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolEryk Kulikowski is a Senior Software Architect based in Leuven with a multidisciplinary background spanning security, e‑health, AI, and scalable backend systems. He combines hands‑on implementation experience—from redesigning high-performance Go components and rule engines for clinical decision support at UZ Leuven to architecting eHealth encryption and token services—with research roots in security and AOSD from KU Leuven. Eryk contributes to open-source research infrastructure, notably fixing critical bugs and license-handling issues in the Dataverse project at Harvard IQSS, showing attention to reliability in research data platforms. Comfortable bridging clinical, academic and industrial stakeholders, he excels at distilling complex requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions and often surfaces non-obvious improvements such as database driver optimizations and execution-pipeline parallelization.
4 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at KU LeuvenTechnischen Universität Darmstadt
English, Dutch, Polish, French
Github Skills (8)
javas10
debug10
api10
apidoc10
java10
dataverse10
debugging9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IQSS/dataverse
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Open source research data repository software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:135 reviews, 117 commits, 47 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Eryk primarily addressed null pointer exceptions and bugs related to image URLs within the Dataverse software's license handling. They fixed null pointer exceptions in the License.java, JsonPrinter.java, and DatasetUtil.java files. Additionally, the user merged various branches and contributed code to handle DDI imports, along with fixing related issues with content. They also contributed fixes to the license management API.
research-datadata-repositoryopendataresearch-data-repositorycreative-commons
libis/rdm-integration-frontend
Oct 2022 - Apr 2025
DataSync Angular GUI
Contributions:18 releases, 2 reviews, 81 PRs in 2 years 6 months
datasyncangulargui
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