Evert Rol
Scientific Software Developer at Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolEvert Rol is a research software engineer with 13 years’ experience applying astrophysics expertise to build and harden scientific software, currently supporting SSTCAM for CTA at the Anton Pannekoek Institute. He helps researchers ship reproducible, well-tested pipelines and environments—implementing algorithms, fixing subtle bugs, and improving CI and packaging—while also teaching best practices like version control and continuous integration. His contributions to flagship astronomy projects such as astropy and astroquery show a focus on robustness and usability, from encoding fixes and test updates to API refinements in FITS and table handling. Past roles span climate and telescope projects where he combined DevOps, documentation, and ML-driven analysis to make research workflows repeatable. Evert thrives in small institutes where rapid one-on-one collaboration accelerates impact, and he brings the pragmatism of a developer who values clean docs and reliable tests as much as elegant algorithms.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters (Drs.), Planetary Astronomy and Science, Masters (Drs.), Planetary Astronomy and Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Amsterdam
Github Skills (15)
astroquery10
fits10
astropy10
docker10
restructuredtext10
python10
astrophysics10
dockers10
jupyter10
astronomy10
documentation10
numpy10
testing10
cicd9
git9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astropy
Mar 2014 - Nov 2017
Astronomy and astrophysics core library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Software Engineer
Back-end Developer / Software EngineerContributions:22 commits, 17 PRs, 105 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Evert primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the astropy library, focusing on the `astropy.stats`, `astropy.table`, and `astropy.io.fits` modules. Their work included addressing issues related to the `axis` keyword in `median_absolute_deviation`, updating the `biweight_midvariance` docstring, and adding and refining features such as the `keep` keyword for table operations and an `overwrite` parameter to the FITS functions. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the functionality and usability of core astronomy and astrophysics tools.
astrologypythonscienceastrophysicsastrodynamics
jupyterhub/repo2docker
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Turn repositories into Jupyter-enabled Docker images
Role in this project:Technical Writer & DevOps Engineer
Technical Writer & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 8 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Evert primarily focused on improving the project documentation and integrating testing procedures. They updated the documentation with reStructuredText and fixed several typos, half sentences and capitalization issues across various documentation files. In addition, they added tests and implemented an edit-mode option, demonstrating their involvement in enhancing both the user experience and the development workflow. They also improved the CI/CD workflow by adding a test for clone depth and a change log.
repositoriesjupyter-notebookdockerjupyterlabjupyter
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