Ellert van der Velden

Alumni

Swinburne University of Technology

Biography

I am currently a full-time technical solutions architect at Energyworx in Houten, the Netherlands after having finished an internship at ADACS at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, working as a scientific software engineer and the lead in one of the astrophysics software projects. Previously, during my masters and Ph.D. projects, I enjoyed supporting others in programming and making systems/programs that improve data analysis, simulations, optimizations, testing, etc. in a scientific way, which I am continuing to this day. I frequently contribute to the open-source programming community through GitHub or other means; love helping others with their programming questions/problems; and have a knack for picking up programming languages really quickly. I am often described as a dedicated and highly motivated worker, who does not rest until a troubling problem has been solved.