Leon Helwerda
PhD Candidate Researcher
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLeon Helwerda is a PhD candidate and researcher at Leiden University's LIACS with 13 years of experience blending formal computer science foundations and practical data science. He works on government-associated projects using big data mining to identify factors that improve IT project success, combining rigorous research methods with applied software development practices. A Leiden-trained computer scientist who also studied mathematics, he has a track record as a teaching assistant in programming and algorithmics, mentoring students across CS, math, physics and astrophysics. Leon is comfortable across the stack—from testing and best practices in software engineering to AI and data-mining applications—and pursues games, frameworks and web programming in his spare time. His profile reflects a researcher who values both theoretical rigor and real-world impact, often translating academic insights into actionable solutions for public-sector IT.
13 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Leiden UniversityVWO/Gymnasium, VWO/Gymnasium at Huygenslyceum, Voorburg
English, Dutch, French, German, Latin, Greek
Github Skills (14)
tomography8
ios6
api4
python3
mocking3
react3
gitlab2
gitlab-api2
visualization2
simulation1
simulator1
software-quality1
bioinformatics1
pipeline1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lhelwerd/WebGraph
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:47 commits in 1 month
ICTU/bigboat-python-api
Jun 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:45 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 5 months
wrapper-libraryapipython-wrapperpython
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