Reinder De Wael
Senior Scientific Software Developer at Child Mind Institute
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolReinder De Wael is a Senior Scientific Software Developer with a PhD in neuroimaging and nine years of experience translating research-grade methods into production-ready tools. He builds end-to-end solutions—APIs, webapps, CI/CD and Azure deployments—bridging machine learning, medical imaging and clinician workflows, most recently developing an LLM-augmented Clinician Toolkit at the Child Mind Institute. His background in manifold learning and neuroanatomy informs pragmatic, well-tested implementations (Python, FastAPI, Docker, TensorFlow) that respect both scientific rigor and clinical usability. Previously he delivered an AI-driven speaker identification MVP for Dutch police, demonstrating an ability to turn complex signal-processing research into scalable microservices. Comfortable communicating with scientists, engineers and non-experts, he combines leadership in research projects with hands-on software craft to accelerate data-driven decision making.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Neuroscience, Master of Science - MS Neuroscience at University of GroningenBachelor of Science - BS Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Bachelor of Science - BS Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at University College Utrecht
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (105)
toolbox10
connectivity10
datasets10
bids10
electrophysiology10
matlab10
multimodal10
crowd10
single-cell-analysis10
open-access10
mri10
open-science10
neuroscience10
decoding10
neuroimaging10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
childmindresearch/actisleep-tracker
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:7 releases, 46 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year
childmindresearch/cross-species-mapper
Jul 2023 - Sep 2024
A webapp for translational exploration between humans and macaques.
Contributions:62 PRs, 132 pushes, 34 branches in 1 year 1 month
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