Summary
Wim Van Der Vegt is a senior software engineer with over 30 years of hands-on experience spanning embedded systems, instrument control, and educational software development. He holds a PhD in Educational/Instructional Technology and has delivered projects for EU Horizon 2020 consortia while building production software in C#, C/C++, Delphi, Assembly and web stacks like PHP/Drupal. Wim’s work ranges from low-level assembler performance tuning on legacy PDP-11 systems to ARM Cortex-M embedded firmware and cross-platform apps using Unity and Xamarin, showing rare full-stack fluency across hardware and software. He has helped global labs automate and control measurement instruments used by multinationals and contributed to declassified naval rangefinder work early in his career. Known for pragmatic problem solving and deep debugging skills, he combines academic rigour with decades of field-tested engineering. Based in Limburg, Netherlands, he repeatedly bridges research and product delivery in both commercial and European research contexts.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ir., Applied Physics, Computer Science, Ir., Applied Physics, Computer Science at University of Twente
Dr., Educational/Instructional Technology, Dr., Educational/Instructional Technology at Open Universiteit
Dutch