Jesse Van Den Kieboom
Senior Principle Software Development Lead at Esri R&D Center Zurich
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJesse Van Den Kieboom is a Senior Principal Software Development Lead at Esri’s R&D Center in Zürich, bringing 13 years of engineering experience and a PhD in Robotics from EPFL to the challenge of putting 3D maps and advanced cartography on the web. He leads development of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript, focusing on web scenes, persistence, core API design and an evolving 3D editing experience that blends GIS rigor with performant browser-native graphics. With a background in AI and robotics and early entrepreneurial work building bespoke data-collection systems, he combines research-grade problem solving with hands-on product delivery. An active contributor to open-source tooling (notably enhancements to a go command-line flags library), he bridges back-end reliability and front-end spatial UX to ship practical, scalable GIS features.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Robotics at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneMaster of Science (MSc), Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MSc), Artificial Intelligence at University of Groningen
English, Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (8)
code-library10
go10
lib10
testing9
error-handling8
reflections7
reflection7
documentation6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jessevdk/go-flags
Sep 2012 - Jun 2021
go command line option parser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 8 reviews, 288 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jesse made several commits focused on improving the `go-flags` library, a command-line option parser. Their contributions include adding example usage, improving error messages, and refactoring internal code by renaming variables and refactoring code for clarity. Further contributions include extending the capabilities of the library by adding features such as completion and by adding options to restrict the available values for command line arguments.
golanggetoptargument-parsingoptioncommand-line-parser
ginny-org/ginny
Sep 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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