Rik De Kort
Principal Engineer at PGGM
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRik De Kort is a Principal Engineer based in Utrecht with 8 years of experience blending theoretical computer science and practical engineering in AI and investment management. He brings a rigorous background in complexity theory and statistics to production problems, having progressed from quant trainee to data scientist and now principal engineer at PGGM. A pragmatic fast learner and disciplined problem-solver, Rik has extended performance-critical Python tooling—contributing array-manipulation support to the LLVM-backed Numba project—to bridge numerical computing and production systems. Outside work he pursues varied interests from circus arts to music and languages, reflecting a creative, hands-on personality that surfaces in both algorithmic thinking and team collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Radboud University Nijmegen
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (7)
compiler10
compiler-compiler10
numba10
python10
numpy10
testing10
llvm9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
numba/numba
Mar 2018 - May 2018
NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 5 PRs, 20 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rik primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of NumPy functions within the Numba project. Their work focused on adding support for functionalities like `np.reshape` and `np.transpose`, along with related testing. This involved modifying existing files related to array manipulation and type declarations within the Numba compiler, demonstrating a focus on extending the capabilities of the project.
cudapythonparallelnumpynumba
Rik-de-Kort/minithesis-rust
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
A port of minithesis to rust
Contributions:4 reviews, 19 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 years
rustminithesisrust-language
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