Menno Engelse
Owner at Islands of Meaning
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMenno Engelse is an experienced web application builder and data project lead with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping solutions for cultural heritage and linked-data use cases. As owner of Islands of Meaning and co-founder of Bitman, he blends entrepreneurial product thinking with practical engineering, guiding projects from concept to implementation. His background in historical informatics and Russian history gives him a rare combination of domain knowledge and technical fluency, especially around geo and heritage datasets. Based in Amsterdam, he frequently works with archives and cultural institutions, applying linked data principles to make collections more discoverable and interoperable. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic creator who alternates between coding, project direction and even hands-on site work — a versatile maker who bridges desks and field.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
postdoctoraal, Historische Informatieverwerking, postdoctoraal, Historische Informatieverwerking at Leiden UniversityMaster of Arts (MA), russian history, Master of Arts (MA), russian history at Universiteit van Amsterdam
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (14)
geotagging6
wikidata4
api3
visualization3
javascript3
linked-data3
leaflet3
graph2
bulkimport1
ontology1
rdf1
elasticsearch1
csv1
json-schema1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mmmenno/rotterdams-publiek
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:150 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
erfgoed-en-locatie/place-identificator
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:51 commits, 45 pushes, 21 comments in 9 months
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