Ruben Heek (24)

Backend-development of a high-performance dynamic price calculation API for train tickets.

Early involvement from creation to release of two growing apps for people renting and searching homes. Built with React on top of Ionic + Capacitor.

First time working as a full member of the development scrum team working on the front-end of vacation booking modules, written in Angular. Focus shifted to code refactoring along with adaptation of the Redux paradigm.

Introduced automated browser-based testing using Selenium and Protractor for one of the Angular applications. Set up and documented a standard for writing and extending this way of testing for use in other products.

Started the development of an AngularJS web application to build JSON Forms using a drag-and-drop interface. Aimed at enabling non-programmes to create, preview, and manage forms.

Developed a web application for rating scrum retrospectives, using AngularJS and Firebase. Create a shareable event where others can leave tips, tops, and a rating. Get an overview of all feedback and an average rating.

Master’s degree Computer Science and Engineering with the Software Science stream focusing on algorithms & data structures.

Bachelor’s degree with the full (all level 100/200/300s) Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics tracks. Study emphasises academic skills. Grade: summa cum laude.

Secondary school with N&T sciences profile, including Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Computer Science. Grade: cum laude.

Algorithm development (Rust) to perform anomaly detection in the streaming and distributed settings, and for various data like time series and graphs.
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Theoretical and empirical analysis of first-order optimisation methods and their use in machine-learning-based simulation-optimisation.
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Development of a dashboard with time and calendar functionality for people with dementia, using (very) natural language and text-to-speech.
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Weekly Mathematics (Calculus) tutoring sessions organised by the student science society Archimedes, providing help with homework questions and exam preparation.