Rob Knapen
AI & Research Software Engineer at OpenMI Association
Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRob Knapen is an AI & Research Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building model-integration frameworks and distributed computing tools for agriculture and environmental sciences from Wageningen, Netherlands. He blends research and engineering, contributing core Java SDK implementations for OpenMI and leading development of the Alterra OSIRIS framework while driving integration work on EU/US projects like LIAISE, AgMIP and SemaGrow. His background spans GIS, embedded systems, and participatory spatial planning tools, giving him a rare mix of domain knowledge in digital agriculture and deep systems-level software craftsmanship. Comfortable with mobile app development to large-scale model architectures, he repeatedly translates complex scientific workflows into robust, production-ready platforms. He completed a PhD in Artificial Intelligence focused on spatial data engineering and continues to support and shape OpenMI standards and community tooling.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Groenewald SteinBSC, Computer Science, BSC, Computer Science at Zuyd UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Wageningen University & Research
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (51)
asynchronous10
concurrent10
effects10
stm10
scala9
zio9
android-client9
concurrent-programming9
typesafe9
functional-programming9
concurrency9
audio8
git8
async8
geotrellis7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
AgroDataCube/api-v1
Mar 2018 - May 2022
Application Programming Interface for the AgroDataCube (terminated)
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
tomcatdatabasenetbeans
FAIRiCUBE/uc2-agriculture-biodiversity-nexus
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:64 pushes, 19 comments, 3 issues in 2 years 4 months
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