Jip Dekker
Research Fellow at OPTIMA_ARC
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJip Dekker is a research fellow at OPTIMA/Monash University with 11 years of experience building programming languages and solver technology for combinatorial optimization. He has driven the development and optimization of the MiniZinc modelling language and contributed to advanced solvers like the lazy clause generation solver Chuffed, applying these tools to real-world problems in medicine and sports scheduling. Trained in concurrency, parallel programming and computer science (PhD ongoing at Monash), he blends deep academic rigor with practical system implementation and deployment. Based in Melbourne, he also has hands-on operational experience managing servers and web applications from earlier roles, which informs his pragmatic approach to reproducible, production-ready research software. An active community-builder, he focuses on interfaces that make diverse solving technologies accessible to practitioners beyond the lab.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, Natuur en Techniek, Gymnasium, High School, Natuur en Techniek, Gymnasium at Maaswaal CollegeMaster’s Degree, Concurrency and Parallel Programming, Master’s Degree, Concurrency and Parallel Programming at Uppsala UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bene Meritum, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bene Meritum at Radboud Universiteit NijmegenInterdisciplinair Honoursprograma, Interdisciplinair Honoursprograma at Radboud Honours AcademyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Monash University
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (166)
jitsi10
parser10
python10
solver10
constraint-satisfaction10
security10
ruby10
automation10
highlighter10
constraint10
linear-programming10
ansible-role10
optimization10
tree-sitter10
linux10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
MiniZinc/minizinc-python
Dec 2018 - Nov 2022
Access to all MiniZinc functionality directly from Python
Contributions:17 releases, 3 reviews, 385 commits in 3 years 11 months
minizincpythonconstraint-programminginteger-programminglinear-programming
Dekker1/dotfiles
Jul 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:221 commits, 138 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 5 months
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