Paul De Vrieze
Principal Academic at Bournemouth University
Greater Bournemouth Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul De Vrieze is a Principal Academic at Bournemouth University with 13+ years of experience leading research and teaching in enterprise information systems and business process management. He brings a strong research pedigree—PhD in Information Science from Radboud University—and a track record of coordinating large EU projects (H2020 FIRST) and leading industry-facing research at SAP and CSIRO. Paul blends hands-on prototype development and code contributions with academic leadership, supervising research groups while shaping curricula and ethics governance. An active open-source contributor, he has improved testing and fixed subtle serialization bugs in the widely used kotlinx.serialization project, including Protobuf packed array support. Based in the Greater Bournemouth area, he combines deep technical expertise in enterprise software with practical experience applying AI-driven solutions to real-world problems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Information Science, Ph.D., Information Science at Radboud UniversityVWO, Secondary Education, VWO, Secondary Education at Scholengroep CambiumM.Sc., Information Science, M.Sc., Information Science at Tilburg University
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (20)
kotlin10
testing10
data-serialization10
serialization10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
image9
json9
debugging9
java9
css9
html6
javac6
android6
memory-management6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization
May 2018 - Apr 2022
Kotlin multiplatform / multi-format serialization
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:58 reviews, 15 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the `kotlinx.serialization` library, focusing on enhancing testing and addressing serialization-related bugs. Their work involved adding new tests to cover edge cases, such as custom serializers and optional values in lists. They also implemented fixes for identified issues, specifically addressing serialization order and the creation of a stack overflow exception in the `MissingDescriptorException`. Additionally, they added support for packed arrays within Protobuf serialization.
multi-formatprotobufkotlin-multiplatformserialization-formatserialization
pdvrieze/kotlinsql
Mar 2016 - Aug 2021
A kotlin library that allows abstracting away sql syntax and provides a typed/typesafe alternative that is still close to the metal.
Contributions:3 releases, 192 commits, 55 pushes in 5 years 5 months
metalsql-syntaxsqltypesafeclose
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