Wouter Beek
Co Founder at Triply
Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolWouter Beek is a co-founder of Triply and a Semantic Web researcher with 11 years of experience building Linked Data platforms and large-scale knowledge infrastructure. He combines academic rigor from a PhD at VU University Amsterdam and cum laude degrees in logic, AI, and philosophy with hands-on product and technical-writing contributions to mature open-source projects like SWI‑Prolog. His work focuses on deploying reusable, large-scale knowledge bases and exploring the interplay between web semantics and pragmatics, exemplified by the LOD Laundromat initiative. Based in Dordrecht, he bridges research and entrepreneurship, bringing a rare mix of logic-programming expertise, documentation craftsmanship, and an interest in procedural and generative forms of expression.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MSc, Logic, Cum Laude, MSc, Logic, Cum Laude at University of Amsterdam
English, German, Dutch
Stackoverflow
3,327reputation
128kreached
80answers
24questions
prolog
top-5%
Github Skills (10)
documentation10
prolog9
rdf6
difference-lists6
xml6
swi-prolog6
persistence6
dcg6
parsing6
logic6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
SWI-Prolog/swipl-devel
Dec 2016 - Apr 2022
SWI-Prolog Main development repository
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:59 commits, 17 PRs, 45 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Wouter primarily focused on improving the documentation within the SWI-Prolog development repository. Their contributions include fixing typos in existing documentation, documenting the default value of options, and completing the documentation of supported types. They also corrected documentation related to specific predicates and functions within the SWI-Prolog library, indicating a deep understanding of the codebase. Furthermore, they updated the documentation to reflect code changes.
swi-prologprologlogic-programming
wouterbeek/tapir
Jun 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:127 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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