Wouter Termont
University Engineer - Senior Researcher at imec
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolWouter Termont is a University Engineer and senior researcher with 9 years of experience building linked data systems and advancing the Solid personal data web. Combining a background in philosophy and informatics, he designs graph-based data models and production-grade Solid Pod infrastructure, having led design and engineering for use.id and contributed to Solid interoperability, authentication and authorization standards. He bridges research and engineering—moving from doctoral work on semantic models and custom graph datastores to leading teams and coding core features in open-source projects like the popular xstate library. Based in Leuven, Belgium, he focuses on pragmatic, privacy-first architectures that make personal data usable and auditable for both end users and organisations. An uncommon strength is his formal-philosophical perspective, which he applies to protocol design and semantic interoperability to reduce ambiguity in distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Philosophy, Bachelor of Philosophy at KU LeuvenBachelor of Informatics, focus on (foundations of) programming languages, Bachelor of Informatics, focus on (foundations of) programming languages at Ghent UniversityHigh School, Mathematics, Science, High School, Mathematics, Science at Sint-Bernardus College Oudenaarde
French, English, Dutch
Github Skills (11)
finite-automata10
statechart10
state-management10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
observable10
state-machine10
typescript-types10
finite-state-automata10
observables10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
statelyai/xstate
Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
Actor-based state management & orchestration for complex app logic.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 18 commits, 3 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Wouter primarily contributed to the core functionality of the xstate library. Their work focused on adding interop observable symbols to ActorRef and Subscribable, ensuring compatibility with other observable libraries. They also addressed merge faults, corrected typing issues, and removed redundant code elements, indicating a focus on code quality and interoperability within the project. The commits demonstrate an understanding of the library's internal workings and its integration with other technologies.
workflowstatechartsstate-machineorchestrationmachines
useid/semcom
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
A decentralised registry to support the dynamic binding of semantic components in Solid data browsers.
Contributions:111 reviews, 62 commits, 82 PRs in 2 years
browserssoliditydecentralisedsemantic-componentssolid
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