Jacco Van Schaik
Software Engineer at NLR - Netherlands Aerospace Centre
Kraggenburg, Flevoland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJacco Van Schaik is a seasoned software engineer with over 12 years of focused experience in aerospace and wind tunnel environments, currently building software at the Netherlands Aerospace Centre. He combines deep expertise in Python/PyQt, C, OpenGL and Linux/FOSS with domain knowledge in aviation, enabling reliable, real-time visualization and control systems. His long tenure across NLR, DNW and earlier national labs reflects a practical ability to deliver safety-critical and research-grade tools. Colleagues know him for pragmatic engineering that bridges low-level performance tuning and user-facing interfaces, often applied to complex simulation and measurement workflows. Based in the Netherlands, he blends academic grounding in software engineering with decades of hands-on systems development.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Software Engineering, BSc, Software Engineering at Avans University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (23)
flight-simulation8
javascript-game8
simulator7
aviation7
explore7
traffic6
pyqt6
python6
simulation6
software-defined-radio5
gnuradio5
cockpit5
data-structures5
exchange5
javascript5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jaccovanschaik/exproto
May 2017 - Jul 2025
Contributions:14 pushes in 8 years 3 months
jaccovanschaik/libjvs
Jul 2013 - Jan 2023
Contributions:244 commits, 195 pushes in 9 years 7 months
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