Maarten Pronk
External PhD Candidate
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMaarten Pronk is an external PhD candidate at TU Delft and a researcher-advisor at Deltares with 11 years of experience in geomatics, remote sensing, and elevation modelling for flood-prone lowlands. He combines rigorous academic research—focusing on applying ICESat-2 lidar to global elevation models—with practical software engineering, authoring several open-source geospatial packages in Julia. His background as a Linux engineer and build engineer for projects like JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil shows deep expertise in cross-platform build systems and dependency management. Maarten is committed to open, reproducible science and brings a hands-on approach to turning satellite data into actionable insights for societal resilience. In his spare time he experiments with open data and balances fieldwork with climbing, mountaineering and motorcycling.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Master of Science (MSc) at Technische Universiteit Delft / Delft University of TechnologyTU DelftVWO, VWO at Zandvlietcollege
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (16)
dependency-management10
pbuilder10
cmake10
cross-platform10
multiplatform10
build-automation10
julia10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
gdal8
thrift6
arrow-keys6
arrow-js6
arrows6
netcdf4
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Collection of builder repositories for BinaryBuilder.jl
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Build Engineer
Backend Developer & Build EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 16 commits, 31 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Maarten primarily contributed to build system configuration and dependency management within the BinaryBuilder.jl ecosystem. They modified build scripts, added support for new dependencies like Expat, Zstd, and LERC, and updated existing libraries. The user also worked on adapting builds for different platforms, including macOS (M1 builds for LASzip) and Windows, demonstrating an understanding of cross-platform build processes. Their work extended to integrating new libraries like StarTIN and RE2.
repositoriesbinarybuildermonorepobuilderjulia
JuliaGeo/GeoInterface.jl
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
A Julia Protocol for Geospatial Data
Contributions:57 reviews, 80 commits, 50 PRs in 2 years 5 months
geospatialjuliageovectorgis
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