Mattijn Van Hoek
Senior Consultant Products And Services at HKV lijn in water
Netherlands
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Top SchoolMattijn Van Hoek is a Senior Consultant with 12 years’ experience applying data science, computer vision and machine learning to large-scale spatio-temporal problems, currently delivering products and services at HKV lijn in water. He holds a PhD in drought monitoring from space and combines academic rigour with practical expertise in hydrology, GIS and interactive graphics. Mattijn is an active member of the Vega steering committee and a co-maintainer of Altair, where his documentation and example contributions earned a Google Open Source Peer Bonus for making complex geospatial visualizations more accessible. He excels at turning messy spatial datasets into actionable insights and deployable visual tools that inform water management decisions. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical communication, reproducible analyses, and pragmatic solutions that bridge research and operational needs.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Not finished, Biomedical Engineering, Not finished, Biomedical Engineering at University of TwenteBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Land and Watermanagement, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Land and Watermanagement at Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein – VHL University of Applied SciencesDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Drought monitoring from space, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Drought monitoring from space at Chinese Academy of SciencesMaster of Science (MSc), Geographical Information Management, Master of Science (MSc), Geographical Information Management at Cranfield University
Github Skills (2)
documentation10
jinja24
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
vega/altair
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Declarative visualization library for Python
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 releases, 213 reviews, 141 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mattijn's contributions primarily revolved around enhancing the documentation of the Altair library. Their work included adding examples, clarifying descriptions, and fixing typos in the documentation files related to customization, saving charts, and working with geospatial data. They also added a section about overlapping bars to enhance visualization documentation. Their work has been focused on making the library easier to understand and use.
visualization-librarypythondeclarativestatisticalmatplotlib
mattijn/datasets
Mar 2017 - Dec 2023
Contributions:153 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
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