Frank Anema
Software Engineer at Statistics Netherlands
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFrank Anema is a pragmatic software engineer with eight years of experience building data-driven systems across startups, scaleups and government, currently contributing to Statistics Netherlands from The Hague. He brings deep Python expertise and full-stack machine learning production experience—having helped Similar.ai reach product-market fit with pipelines, APIs and cloud deployments using tools like Django, Elasticsearch, BigQuery and PyTorch. As co-founder and CTO of a mobility startup he led algorithm development, embedded software and data engineering, blending research-grade control engineering from TU Delft with hands-on product delivery. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core behavior and usability in the widely used folium mapping library, showing attention to both low-level robustness and documentation. Colleagues know him for turning complex modeling and ML requirements into operational services while also stepping into engineering management and customer-facing roles.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, Nature & Technology, Nature & Health, VWO, Nature & Technology, Nature & Health at Christelijk Lyceum ZeistBachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of TechnologyJapanese-Language Proficiency Test 3, 390/400, Japanese-Language Proficiency Test 3, 390/400 at Chiba Meitoku Highschool
English, Japanese, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
data-visualizations10
mappings10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
leaflet10
geojson9
javascript9
json6
maps6
folium6
pandas6
choropleth6
django6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
python-visualization/folium
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
Python Data. Leaflet.js Maps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 188 reviews, 217 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Frank focused on improving the "folium" Python library, primarily modifying core functionality and implementing new features related to tile layer and marker behavior. They addressed zoom-related issues, set default values, and introduced a new keyword for tilesets. Additionally, they added links to a gallery of examples and documentation, demonstrating a focus on usability and information accessibility.
js-mapsleafletleaflet-jspythondata-science
collectiegroesbeek/collectiegroesbeek
Sep 2018 - Jan 2025
Elasticsearch and Flask webapp to publish the Collectie Groesbeek dataset
Contributions:52 PRs, 102 pushes, 44 branches in 6 years 4 months
nginxpublishpythonflaskdataset
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