Thomas Van Turnhout
Co-Founder at DataTalk
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolThomas Van Turnhout is a Brussels-based software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building AI-driven automation products and data-driven systems. As co-founder of Oakwood.ai (acquired by Netcall) and now DataTalk, he blends product-focused leadership with hands-on full-stack development, particularly in open-source robotic process automation. His contributions to the Automagica project show deep practical work extending RPA capabilities—adding data generation, text/image handling and third-party integrations like Trello and Word. Earlier roles in telecom and startups honed his machine-learning and predictive analytics skills for real-world operational problems. Cheerful and philosophically curious, he pairs technical rigor from KU Leuven engineering training with a collaborative, people-first approach to shipping solutions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Burgerlijk Ingenieur / Civil Engineer (Ir.) , Burgerlijk Ingenieur / Civil Engineer (Ir.) at KU LeuvenSecundair Latijn-Wetenschappen, Secundair Latijn-Wetenschappen at Wico campus Sint-JozefIndustrieel Ingenieur / Industrial Engineer (Ing.), Industrieel Ingenieur / Industrial Engineer (Ing.) at KU Leuven - Group T Leuven Campus
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (6)
python10
browser-automation10
selenium9
selenium-ide9
testing7
machine-learning5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
automagica/automagica
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
AI-powered Smart Robotic Process Automation 🤖
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 152 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the Automagica project by modifying the `activities.py` file, likely to add and enhance core functionalities within the robotic process automation domain. Their work involved the addition of features such as new data generation options (random data, address), expanded functionality for handling text and images, and also implementing support for third party applications like Trello, Microsoft Word and other features, suggesting a focus on extending Automagica's capabilities. They also made changes to the documentation and examples and implemented multiple fixes for edge cases.
roboticspythonai-poweredprocess-automationrobotic-process-automation
tvturnhout/parrot-chatbot
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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