GertjanĀ vanĀ denĀ Burg
Research Scientist at THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE
Summary
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RockstarGertjan van den Burg is a Research Scientist with 12 years of experience applying machine learning to real-world engineering problems. Based in the UK, he combines research rigor with hands-on DevOps and automation experience, notably contributing to the widely used pypa/cibuildwheel project to harden cross-platform Python wheel builds and CI test handling. He is comfortable debugging low-level build scripts and improving CI/CD reliability, which complements his ML research background and enables smoother model-to-production workflows. Colleagues can expect a practitioner who bridges experimental research and production engineering, with a track record of fixing subtle build and test failure modes that often block deployments.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
python10
cil10
bash10
script10
build-automation10
github-ci9
linux9
githubaction-workflow9
docker8
dockers8
testing8
scroll-wheel7
wheels7
mousewheel7
data-visualization6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/cibuildwheel
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
š” Build Python wheels for all the platforms with minimal configuration.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Gertjan focused on improving the CI/CD process for building Python wheels across different platforms. They addressed issues related to return codes from tests, modifying the shell scripts used in the build process. Their contributions included debugging and fixing errors in the test execution, which involved modifying shell scripts to handle test failures correctly, and updating the build configurations. The commits reflect a deep understanding of the build process.
appveyorazure-pipelinespythonpypidevops
alan-turing-institute/CleverCSV
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
CleverCSV is a Python package for handling messy CSV files. It provides a drop-in replacement for the builtin CSV module with improved dialect detection, and comes with a handy command line application for working with CSV files.
Contributions:4 releases, 7 reviews, 792 commits in 4 years 2 months
csvpythoncsv-converterimproveddata-mining
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