Laurens Kuiper
Software Developer at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurens Kuiper is a software developer and PhD student in Database Architectures at CWI with eight years of experience focused on data science, databases, and information retrieval. He develops at DuckDB Labs, contributing to core documentation and tooling for the popular DuckDB project, and brings hands-on back-end and documentation-generation expertise. His background blends academic research with industry practice—teaching big data, maintaining CI/CD, and researching prediction of database operation durations. With strong academic results in computer science and practical experience in Java and Python ecosystems, he bridges rigorous research and production-quality engineering. Notably, his contributions to DuckDB’s web and docs reveal attention to developer experience as well as database internals.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 9.0 thesis - 8.7 average, Master's degree, Computer Science, 9.0 thesis - 8.7 average at Radboud UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 8.5 thesis, 7.3 average, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 8.5 thesis, 7.3 average at Radboud University Nijmegen
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
duckdb10
document-generation10
documents10
python10
documentation10
sql7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
duckdb/duckdb-web
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
DuckDB website and documentation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 22 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Laurens contributed to the DuckDB website and documentation by adding and modifying documentation for database macros and related functions. The changes involved updating JavaScript files related to the creation and dropping of macros, including adding parameters to the railroad diagrams. Furthermore, the user made alterations to Python scripts used to generate documentation, demonstrating familiarity with the codebase's documentation generation process. The contributions indicate a focus on expanding and refining the documentation for the database's functionalities.
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lnkuiper/duckdb
Dec 2019 - Feb 2023
Fork of duckdb/duckdb
Contributions:165 commits, 2663 pushes, 543 branches in 3 years 2 months
duckdbdatabase
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