Pieter Robberechts
PhD Candidate
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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RockstarPieter Robberechts is a PhD candidate and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience, based in Leuven, Belgium, who blends CS engineering with sports analytics and a deep data orientation. He contributes to open-source projects across the stack—improving time-series DTW implementations, scraping and cleaning soccer datasets, and building utilities that convert event streams into actionable player-value metrics. Pieter’s work spans back-end algorithmic fixes and ML feature engineering to front-end polish, evidenced by contributions from dtaidistance and socceraction to a responsive Hexo theme. He has a knack for stabilizing brittle data pipelines and adding pragmatic pruning and performance improvements, making research-grade tools more production-ready. An active collaborator, he quietly bridges academic rigor and practical engineering to advance analytics for football.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
data-conversion10
python10
pandas10
responsive-design10
machine-learning10
hexo10
webscraping10
theme-development10
clustering10
data-analysis10
data-parsing9
scikit9
css9
scikit-learn9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
probberechts/soccerdata
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
⛏⚽ Scrape soccer data from Club Elo, ESPN, FBref, FiveThirtyEight, Football-Data.co.uk, FotMob, Sofascore, SoFIFA, Understat and WhoScored.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 16 reviews, 37 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Pieter primarily focused on enhancing the soccerdata library by addressing bugs and improving the data scraping capabilities from various sources. Their work included fixing broken links in the documentation and improving the FBref scraper to handle future game data, and fixing broken API URLs. Additionally, the user contributed to fixing the WhoScored scraper for tournament schedules. They bumped the library's version and added documentation.
fivethirtyeightelo-ratingfbrefsofifafootball
probberechts/hexo-theme-cactus
Jul 2018 - Mar 2022
:cactus: A responsive, clean and simple theme for Hexo.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 30 commits, 115 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Pieter primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Hexo theme. Their work included adding and modifying layouts, integrating features like Disqus comments and RSS feed support, and implementing a responsive mobile menu. They also focused on improving the user interface by adding options for social links and a configurable navigation menu. Furthermore, they updated the theme to support tag and category pages, as well as added a floating and responsive footer.
responsive-designcactuscleansimple-themepelican
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