Kor De Jong
Research Software Engineer at Utrecht University
Netherlands
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Top SchoolKor De Jong is a research software engineer and founder of Geoneric with 16 years of experience building high-performance scientific software for large, multidimensional spatial and temporal datasets. Based at Utrecht University, he blends academic rigor from a PhD in Computational Geography with practical engineering—optimizing compute and I/O bottlenecks for data-intensive geospatial workflows. His background includes long-term roles on PCRaster and Esri’s Spatial Analyst team, giving him deep domain knowledge in hydrology and spatial modeling. Kor is available for contract work through his company and is comfortable moving projects from prototype to production-grade performance. He also contributes to prominent open-source efforts like the HPX C++ parallelism library, where he improves clarity and cross-platform build robustness—an indicator of his attention to both code quality and reproducible documentation. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who brings measurable speedups to computation-heavy research software.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Geographical Information Systems, MSc, Geographical Information Systems at Utrecht University
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
documentation10
concurrency9
cpp9
cross-platform8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
STEllAR-GROUP/hpx
May 2019 - Nov 2022
The C++ Standard Library for Parallelism and Concurrency
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kor's contributions primarily involve correcting typos and improving the clarity of documentation within the HPX repository. Their work focused on refining examples and explanatory text in several RST files, and fixing minor grammatical errors. They also made minor adjustments to the build process, adding necessary patches for cross-platform compatibility.
cppconcurrencyc-plus-plusparallelismstandard-library
geoneric/devbase
Aug 2015 - Mar 2020
Scripts that are useful in multiple development projects. To be used as a submodule of other projects.
Contributions:123 commits, 2 PRs, 96 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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