Paul Boon
Software-ingenieur at DANS
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPaul Boon is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of professional experience, currently working at DANS in the Randstad area of the Netherlands. His background bridges scientific programming and applied software development, with roles spanning research institutes and cultural heritage projects since the late 1990s. At DANS he has evolved from software engineer to technical application manager and back to a hands-on engineering role, reflecting both operational stewardship and deep implementation experience. Paul contributes to notable open-source work such as the IQSS/dataverse research data repository, where he has fixed download/citation issues and added analytics and configuration support. He combines a physics MSc from the University of Amsterdam with practical expertise in back-end services, integration, and documentation for research infrastructure. Known for quietly resolving tricky interoperability problems, he brings reliability and institutional knowledge to long-lived, data-focused systems.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Drs (Msc), Physics, Drs (Msc), Physics at University of Amsterdam
Github Skills (7)
javas10
java10
apidoc9
api9
configuration-management8
database-design8
documentation7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
IQSS/dataverse
Mar 2018 - Sep 2022
Open source research data repository software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 62 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the Dataverse project by merging and updating code branches. They introduced configurations for the Piwik Analytics tracker filenames and added support for custom navbar URLs, integrating them into the application's settings and service beans. Further contributions included fixing file download functionalities for citations, and addressing issues related to Handle.Net service setup, including the independent handle service and related documentation.
research-datadata-repositoryopendataresearch-data-repositorycreative-commons
DANS-KNAW/dataverse-dans-metrics
Apr 2019 - Jan 2022
DANS specific Dataverse metrics
Contributions:13 releases, 3 reviews, 13 PRs in 2 years 9 months
dataversemetrics
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