Wouter Van Kleunen
Lecturer at Saxion
Overijssel, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolWouter Van Kleunen is a lecturer and veteran embedded systems engineer with 16 years of experience building energy-efficient wireless and underwater acoustic sensor networks and low-level C/C++ networking stacks. He co-founded Locus Positioning to commercialize calibration-free indoor positioning, and his research (PhD: Echoes from the Deep) translates directly into practical protocols for localization, scheduling and time-synchronization. At Saxion he combines teaching with hands-on development, and his open-source contributions include performance-oriented back-end work on tilemaker that leverages mmap-based storage to speed OpenStreetMap vector tile generation without a full database. Comfortable across embedded OS internals, MAC/transport layers and visualization tools, he brings both academic rigor and startup pragmatism to complex, resource-constrained systems. Notably, he has served as an external Bluetooth expert for national contact tracing efforts, showing his ability to apply niche wireless expertise to public-impact projects.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Twente
Github Skills (10)
openstreetmap10
cpp-library10
c-language10
c-library10
lib10
cprogramming-language10
boost10
data-structure9
data-structures9
algorithms8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
systemed/tilemaker
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
Make OpenStreetMap vector tiles without the stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 47 commits, 50 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Wouter's commits primarily focus on optimizing the storage and processing of OpenStreetMap data for generating vector tiles. They implemented changes to store node data in mmap files, improving performance by utilizing memory-mapped files. The user also introduced and refactored code to store and efficiently manage ways and relations within the same memory-mapped file structure. These changes are crucial for the overall project goal of creating vector tiles without relying on a full database stack, which improves efficiency and simplifies deployment.
openstreetmapvector-tiles
kleunen/tilemaker
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
Make OpenStreetMap vector tiles without the stack
Contributions:435 pushes, 30 branches, 1 tag in 7 months
mvtvectorosmtilesvector-tiles
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