Joran Dox
Data Engineer
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolJoran Dox is a Data Engineer based in Antwerp with 10 years of experience building data-driven systems and applying machine learning and recommender techniques in production. He combines a strong academic foundation (Master’s in Computer Science, distinction) with hands-on roles across Mediahuis and Vectr.Consulting, moving from data science into robust data engineering. Joran contributes to open-source tooling—improving Intake’s RemoteSequenceSource to support diverse storage backends and encoding options—illustrating attention to interoperable data access. A programmer and avid gamer, he blends practical engineering, curiosity about AI/ML, and a preference for reproducible data workflows to deliver scalable, well-documented solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Onderscheiding, Master's degree, Computer Science, Onderscheiding at University of Antwerp
Dutch, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
data-catalog10
data-access10
python10
dask8
yaml7
debugging6
stopwords6
kubernetes6
jupyterlab6
text-classification6
jupyter6
lda6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
intake/intake
Oct 2019 - Mar 2022
Intake is a lightweight package for finding, investigating, loading and disseminating data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Joran contributed to the Intake data access library, primarily focusing on improving the `RemoteSequenceSource` functionality. They added support for `storage_options` to allow for more flexible data access, including interacting with different storage backends. Further changes included returning storage options, using provided encoders, and integrating pickle/json encoding options. Additionally, the user updated the documentation, specifically related to catalog parameter templating.
pythondata-sciencedata-accessfindingsinger
JoranDox/adventofcode
Dec 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:133 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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