Tom Kooij
Teacher at Coornhert Gymnasium
Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTom Kooij is an experienced physics and mathematics teacher with 20+ years in Dutch secondary education, teaching havo/vwo (including gymnasium) and mentoring 3vwo students. He blends classroom practice with a strong technical bent—specialising in conceptual physics, ICT, learning psychology, active learning, NLT and design-oriented "Thinking Science" lessons. Outside school he contributed to cosmic ray research with HiSPARC at Nikhef and maintains a hands-on interest in Python tooling, notably creating the modelling language at tomkooij.nl/modelleertaal. His open-source experience includes backend development and test automation for the widely used PyTables project, tackling data querying, indexing and buffer handling for large datasets. Trained as an aerospace engineer (TU Delft, M.Sc.) he also brings prior industry experience as an aircraft stress engineer on the A380 wing. Colleagues and students know him for combining rigorous scientific thinking with practical ICT solutions to make complex concepts accessible.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, Physics Education, M.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, Physics Education at TU Delft
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Github Skills (13)
hdf10
python10
numpy10
testing10
data-structure9
indexing9
data-structures9
databases8
database8
pandas6
seaborn6
plot6
matplotlib6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
PyTables/PyTables
Mar 2016 - Feb 2020
A Python package to manage extremely large amounts of data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 releases, 221 commits, 93 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the back-end of the PyTables project, specifically by addressing issues related to data querying and indexing. Their contributions included fixing and testing code related to the interaction of functions with queries, as well as ensuring that the software could handle padding in compound data types. The user also implemented test cases to validate queries containing functions and made changes to ensure the proper handling of buffers when indexing data.
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tomkooij/modelleertaal
May 2015 - May 2022
Modelleertaal to javascript compiler in javascript
Contributions:16 releases, 535 commits, 10 PRs in 7 years 1 month
compilerjavascriptjavascript-compiler
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