Mick Van Gelderen
Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning at Astera Institute
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMick Van Gelderen is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Rust and machine learning, with 12 years of hands-on experience building embedded, backend, and full‑stack systems. He combines academic rigor from a TU Delft master’s in computer graphics with practical product-focused work—recently automating transport in greenhouses and warehouses and building a live ordering/dashboard system for restaurants through his consultancy, Mick Works. A strong open-source contributor, he has back-end contributions to the Rust-based Polars dataframe project, improving CSV scanning, async IPC, and macro features. Mick favors teams delivering physical products in the green energy and robotics space and brings a knack for improving engineering processes, test automation, and maintainability. Known for quickly adopting new languages and tooling, he also speaks up to refocus teams on the bigger picture when delivery or quality slips.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
TU Delft
Dutch, English
Github Skills (12)
apache-arrow10
dataframes10
polar10
rust10
polars10
arrows10
dataframe10
arrow-js10
ipc9
interprocess-communication9
csv8
parquet8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pola-rs/polars
Mar 2024 - Jun 2024
Dataframes powered by a multithreaded, vectorized query engine, written in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 30 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mick primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Polars library, focusing on the Rust implementation. Their work involved refactoring code, such as extracting key-value construction and simplifying computations within the CSV scanner. They also implemented new features related to the `df!` macro and async IPC reader functionality. Additionally, the user addressed bugs related to column ordering and improved codebase efficiency.
polarsdataframespythondataframerust
mickvangelderen/quantum-computing
Nov 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 4 months
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