Paul Meems is an experienced AI Prompt Engineer and seasoned .NET/DevOps specialist with 20+ years of hands-on experience in software, GIS and cloud automation. He combines deep C#/.NET and GIS expertise—leading the MapWindow open-source project since 2004—with modern Azure DevOps, IaC (YAML/PowerShell) and Blazor front-end work. Paul has driven end-to-end solutions from low-level GIS plugins to scalable Azure-hosted web apps and multi-tenant architectures, often coaching teams and mentoring junior developers. Recently he has blended creative AI workflows (ChatGPT, MidJourney, StableDiffusion) into a commercial art webshop, showing a rare mix of technical rigor and artistic experimentation. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he excels at identifying bottlenecks and translating stakeholder needs into reliable, automated systems. Based in Hoogezand, Netherlands, he thrives at the intersection of open-source collaboration, cloud engineering and AI-driven creative tooling.
20 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO, HAVO, HAVO, HAVO at CSG Oostergo, Dokkum
HBO, Land- Water en Milieubeheer, Cultuurtechniek, HBO, Land- Water en Milieubeheer, Cultuurtechniek at Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences
MW5 is a desktop GIS which is extendable using the plug-in architecture. It is using the MapWinGIS mapping control and is created from scratch in 2015 using new technologies like MEF and Dependency Injection making it small in size, robust and fast.
Contributions:7 releases, 172 commits, 22 PRs in 5 years 11 months
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