Experience

Software developer

Dec 2020 - now Impact Institute

• Streamlined the development workflow with Infrastructure-As-Code, automated tests, and automated deployment
• Leveraged my in-depth understanding of the domain to improve tool functionality as well as user experience
• Enhanced the team's methodology knowledge with documentation, leading to better design
• Monitored and improved tool performance using telemetry data
• Took ownership of the APIs in our architecture and reliably delivered improvements and new features

Teaching Assistant

2015 - 2018 University of Birmingham (UK), University of Amsterdam

• Helped students understand their course material in the classroom
• Mastered the content of the first-year course programming in python

Mathematic and Physics tutor

2014-2016 various

• Helped students with school work one-on-one
• Delivered training to classrooms to prepare students for their exams

Education

Postgraduate Research in Astrophysics (Phd)

2016 - 2020 University of Birmingham (UK)

• Researched data analysis methods for Pulsar Timing Arrays, in the search for gravitational waves from supermassive black holes
• Developed python code and employed high performance computing clusters
• Published papers and presented my work to the scientific community

Astronomy and Astrophysics (BSc, MSc)

2011-2016 University of Amsterdam