Miel Vander Sande
Data Architect
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolMiel Vander Sande is a Data Architect with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and practical engineering in Linked Data, semantic web technologies, and open data infrastructures. He holds cum laude degrees in Multimedia and Electronics/ICT and completed a PhD on metadata and low-cost linked data publishing, blending deep research with hands-on prototype engineering at imec and IDLab. Miel has co-authored 40+ publications, collaborated with US national labs and USC/ISI, and led projects across digital publishing, e-learning and archival data sharing. Now at meemoo, he designs archival data architectures that balance standards-driven interoperability with pragmatic, low-cost deployment. Colleagues value his rare combination of scholarly rigor, standards involvement, and production experience in NodeJS/Java ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Industrial Science: Electronics - ICT, Master, Industrial Science: Electronics - ICT at Ghent UniversityMaster of Engineering (MEng), Telecommunications, Master of Engineering (MEng), Telecommunications at Universidad Politécnica de ValenciaBachelor, Multimedia and Communication technology, Bachelor, Multimedia and Communication technology at Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome Hogeschool
English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch
Github Skills (200)
semantic-web10
url-parsing10
compression10
data-validation10
pattern10
uri10
serializer10
data-integrity10
data-science10
querying10
exploratory-data-analysis10
python10
triple10
mlops10
pipeline10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
viaacode/prefect-flow-arc-kg-postgres-etl
May 2024 - Apr 2025
Synchronization ETL between KG and Postgres for hetarchief.be V3+
Contributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 132 PRs in 10 months
LinkedDataFragments/Server.Java
Jan 2015 - Oct 2019
A Triple Pattern Fragments server for Java
Contributions:10 releases, 21 PRs, 58 pushes in 4 years 10 months
jsinteropjava-bytecodetriplejarserver
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