Miel Vander Sande
Data Architect
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolMiel Vander Sande is a Data Architect based in the Ghent metro area with around a decade of experience bridging Semantic Web research and applied data engineering. He holds a PhD on metadata and low-cost linked data publishing infrastructures and has co-authored 40+ publications while collaborating with labs such as USC/ISI and Los Alamos. Miel combines deep expertise in Linked Open Data, metadata design and standards with hands-on prototyping (Node.js, JavaScript, Java) from roles at imec and IDLab and now shapes archival data architecture at meemoo. An early thesis on RFID-based indoor activity tracking and formal teacher training in informatics underline his practical, cross-disciplinary approach to making complex data interoperable and usable.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Telecommunications, Master of Engineering (MEng), Telecommunications at Universidad Politécnica de ValenciaGhent UniversityBachelor, Multimedia and Communication technology, Bachelor, Multimedia and Communication technology at Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome Hogeschool
English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch
Github Skills (200)
semantic-web10
url-parsing10
compression10
data-validation10
pattern10
uri10
serializer10
data-integrity10
data-science10
querying10
exploratory-data-analysis10
python10
triple10
mlops10
jsonld10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
viaacode/prefect-flow-arc-kg-postgres-etl
May 2024 - Apr 2025
Synchronization ETL between KG and Postgres for hetarchief.be V3+
Contributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 132 PRs in 10 months
LinkedDataFragments/Server.Java
Jan 2015 - Oct 2019
A Triple Pattern Fragments server for Java
Contributions:10 releases, 21 PRs, 58 pushes in 4 years 10 months
jsinteropjava-bytecodetriplejarserver
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