Raymond Young
Data-engineer At The Gemeente Amsterdam, Directie Data
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRaymond Young is a data engineer at the City of Amsterdam with a rare blend of scholarly rigor and decades of hands-on database engineering, holding a PhD in Botany from the University of Amsterdam and over 20 years of experience in Oracle, PostgreSQL and now Azure Databricks. He has built and coordinated development standards for municipal geospatial and civic data products, migrating from open-source stacks to cloud-native Python/SQL workflows while supporting internal and external information needs. Earlier roles include 11 years as an Oracle developer at Centric and foundational bioinformatics work creating bespoke databases and analysis tools during his PhD research. Comfortable spanning research, data modelling and production ETL, he combines a methodical, scientific approach to data quality with practical delivery in government IT. Outside work he brings curiosity and persistence—reflected in interests from historical linguistics to long-distance running—that inform a steady, long-term perspective on data projects.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Post-graduate, Geo-information provision, Post-graduate, Geo-information provision at NieuwlandGeoSecondary school: Gymnasium β, Secondary school: Gymnasium β at ThorbeckescholengemeenschapDrs. (MSc), Dr. (PhD), Biology: Aquatic ecology, Vegetation science, Didactics; Botany: Palynology and Palaeoecology, Drs. (MSc), Dr. (PhD), Biology: Aquatic ecology, Vegetation science, Didactics; Botany: Palynology and Palaeoecology at Universiteit van AmsterdamDiploma Secondary school, Gymnasium β: A levels: Dutch, Latin, English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Diploma Secondary school, Gymnasium β: A levels: Dutch, Latin, English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology at Herman JordanlyceumPrimary school, Primary school at Van Heuven Goedhartschool
Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
json-schema8
data-modeling8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Amsterdam/bgt
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
Basiskaart Grootschalige Topografie
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
Amsterdam/amsterdam-schema
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
Data modeling & verification for the City of Amsterdam's open data - based on JSON Schema
Contributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 10 PRs in 9 months
data-modelingjson-schemaamsterdam-schemameta-schemateam-datadiensten
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