Gerben De Boer
Information Specialist Tendering & Engineering
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGerben De Boer is an information and innovation leader with 10+ years of experience translating complex engineering and geoscience problems into scalable data products and AI-ready knowledge systems. At Van Oord he has grown teams and tooling from skunkworks to production—introducing cloud, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Docker and GitHub practices—and now leads an internal RAG/LLM chatbot and a SharePoint-backed document & knowledge management platform. His background spans PhD-level coastal oceanography, academic teaching and research collaborations (TU Delft), plus founding roles in open-data initiatives, giving him a rare blend of domain science, software engineering and product management. He is skilled at bridging R&D, estimating and operations, securing innovation funding and embedding governance to make novel technology repeatable and auditable. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of operationalizing academic models (e.g., OpenCLSim) into business-critical cloud services used for decision-making.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
ESA envschool '06NCK summerschoolPhD, Civil engineering, PhD, Civil engineering at Delft University of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
electron10
microsoft10
logistics10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
editor10
discrete-event-simulation10
vscode10
cyclic10
depth10
visual-studio-code9
visual-studio9
rule9
spatial8
geographic8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openearth/pyswan
Mar 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
VanOord/OpenCLSim
Jun 2020 - Apr 2024
Rule driven scheduling of cyclic activities for in-depth comparison of alternative operating strategies.
Contributions:10 reviews, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 11 months
schedulingrulecomparisoncyclicdepth
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