Jan-willem Buurlage
Machine Vision Engineer at Monumental
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJan-willem Buurlage is a Machine Vision Engineer with 13 years of experience building real-world computer vision, imaging, and distributed systems for products at Monumental, Meta, and Microsoft. He combines a PhD in Applied Mathematics with hands-on engineering—designing C++ microservices, gRPC localization services, and real-time distributed tomographic reconstruction pipelines deployed on multi-GPU clusters. His work spans spatial AI for mixed reality, depth super-resolution for VR, and low-latency mapping and calibration for construction robots, often blending learned and classical methods. He has a track record of reducing communication overhead in distributed algorithms and shipping observability and production tooling for complex vision pipelines. Outside product teams he developed Bulk, an open-source library for bulk-synchronous parallel algorithms, reflecting deep expertise in parallel and functional approaches to inverse problems. Based in Amsterdam, he brings a rare mix of research rigor and production-focused pragmatism to tackle perception problems at scale.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Applied Mathematics at Leiden UniversityMaster of Science - MSc Mathematical Sciences, Master of Science - MSc Mathematical Sciences at Utrecht University
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (72)
multithreading10
cffi10
pypy10
parallel-computing10
category-theory10
dotnet10
theory10
parallel-processing10
engine10
wheels10
vtk10
csharp10
synchronous10
channel10
mpi10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jwbuurlage/Pleiades
May 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 1 push in 9 months
jwbuurlage/jwbuurlage.github.io
Mar 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:142 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 1 month
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