Summary
Mathijs Dumon is a technical lead with 16 years of experience bridging scientific research and software-driven product development, currently leading engineering at Soleras after steering the Marlin Core team at Merkator. Trained as a geologist with a PhD-level research background at Ghent University, he brings deep expertise in quantitative clay mineralogy and soil formation—evidenced by multiple publications in Geoderma and Catena—that informs his analytical approach to complex systems. He combines academic rigor from post‑doc and PhD work with hands-on leadership in industry projects, managing cross-disciplinary teams and translating domain science into robust technical solutions. Based in the Ghent metropolitan area, Mathijs is comfortable operating at the intersection of research, tooling, and product, and often applies geoscientific methods and X-ray diffractometry insights to novel engineering problems.
16 years of coding experience
Master, Geology, Master, Geology at Ghent University
Wetenschappen-Wiskunde 8u, Wetenschappen-Wiskunde 8u at Sint - Leo College Brugge