Sven Van Der Burg
Stadstuinderij NoordOogst
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSven Van Der Burg is a research software engineer with 11 years of experience who blends scientific rigor with practical machine learning and software engineering skills. He has built and deployed ML-driven products and APIs, led projects at Netherlands eScience Center, and taught workshops on deep learning, version control, and best practices for research software. Sven has experience across the stack—from developing neural networks for molecular similarity to deploying Dockerized services on Kubernetes—and has worked as a data scientist producing production-ready information extraction and recommendation systems. In recent years he has pivoted toward agroecology, founding Stadstuinderij NoordOogst and Geworteld in Noord while completing vocational training in sustainable agriculture. That unusual mix of academic neuroscience, applied ML, and hands-on farming gives him a pragmatic systems perspective and a knack for translating complex research into usable tools. He is based in Amsterdam and combines project management, teaching, and consulting strengths with a curiosity for interdisciplinary solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MBO 3 Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture, MBO 3 Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture at WarmonderhofMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Brain and Cognitive Sciences at University of AmsterdamVWO N&T, VWO N&T at Dalton Den Haag
Dutch, English
Github Skills (200)
python10
forge10
intermediate10
alpha10
multilingual10
software-design10
stable10
spectra10
glossaries10
prerequisites10
keras10
multiprocessing10
structural-biology9
convolutional-neural-networks9
data-wrangling9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
escience-academy/2021-03-29-code-refine
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Home of the code refinery workshop taught on 2021-03-29
Contributions:4 reviews, 21 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
refineryworkshop
esciencecenter-digital-skills/carpentries-exercises-extractor
Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
Automatically extracts all exercises from a carpentries lesson
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 3 PRs in 2 years 4 months
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