Tim Van Wassenhove
GenAI Software Engineer at ICTEAM BVBA
Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolTim Van Wassenhove is a GenAI software engineer and founder with 11 years of hands-on experience building scalable data and backend systems from the ground up. Based in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, he has deep expertise in streaming data, machine learning pipelines, and distributed architectures using Scala, Python, Spark, Kafka, Flink and cloud-native patterns. At Telenet he architects high-performance AI backends and optimizes training and inference workflows, while earlier roles ran the gamut from technical architect to team lead across .NET, C# and big-data ecosystems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the Apache DataFusion SQL query engine—adding glob support, URI handling fixes and extended CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE options—demonstrating both systems-level thinking and attention to robustness. He thrives in motivated, cross-functional teams, enjoys mentoring colleagues, and brings an entrepreneurial perspective from running his own consultancy.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at KU LeuvenProfessional Bachelor Applied Informatics, Professional Bachelor Applied Informatics at Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven
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Github Skills (20)
fusion10
object-store10
sql10
fileio10
file-handling10
file-processing10
query-engine10
rust10
file-access10
testing9
data-engineering9
git8
camera6
image-capture6
database6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
apache/datafusion
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 6 commits, 10 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on enhancing the Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine. Their contributions included implementing glob pattern support for file access within the object store, which involved modifying existing functions and adding new tests. They also addressed a bug related to path normalization and globbing, and improved the handling of URI paths within the object store registry. Additionally, they contributed to code formatting, including setting up linting tools for Rust code, and extended the CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE functionality to support options.
querypythonquery-enginedataframerust
datafusion-contrib/datafusion-catalogprovider-glue
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 55 commits in 4 months
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