Patrick Hochstenbach
PHD Student at Ghent University
Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Hochstenbach is a PhD student and seasoned software architect with over 15 years of experience building search engines, digital preservation systems, and data-driven services for academic libraries. Trained in theoretical high-energy physics, he pivoted into library technology in 1996 and authored one of the earliest SFX servers that helped shape global access to scholarly full text. His career spans research engineering at Los Alamos, software architecture at Lund University, and long-term roles at Ghent University where he now researches decentralized web techniques for scholarly communication. Pragmatic and interdisciplinary, he combines deep systems programming with domain knowledge of library workflows and policy, and brings hands-on experience turning research prototypes into widely used production software.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Master of Science - MS, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Radboud University Nijmegen
Dutch, English, German, French, Indonesian
Github Skills (200)
reasoner10
perl10
dancer10
servicenow10
json10
serializer10
oai10
owl10
marc10
filemaker10
django10
yaml10
tiddlywiki10
data-wrangling10
csv10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
LibreCat/Catmandu-Breaker
Apr 2016 - Feb 2021
Package that exports data in a Breaker format
Contributions:3 PRs, 23 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 10 months
breakerexports
MellonScholarlyCommunication/scholix-client
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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