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Arthur is an experienced research software architect and engineer (20+ years) with strong communication skills to connect stakeholders and software+numerical experts, product design, planning and development.Originally (lead) developer with strong analytical skills and fast problem identification, now software and domain architect for large-scale fluid dynamics and hydrological software systems. Teaching role to development teams, as well as expert advisor to management teams.Initiator of collaborative open source software development communities, bringing research software institutes, consultancy firms and the public sector together.Co-leading multi-year agile software development projects starting with stakeholder and investor talks, all the way to release deliveries and training.Earlier consultancy jobs in IT (database applications, websites), quickly identifying customers' needs.Ph.D. degree in Computational Science, thesis on adaptive moving meshes and gas flows.Master's degree in Computational Science with distinction cum laude, thesis on adaptive methods for traffic flow simulation.Master's degree in Computer Science, thesis on program transformation.Specialties: In general: pragmatic, analytic, fast.In projects: quickly identifying key elements in a (customers') case. Keeping 'the bigger picture' in mind. Understandable communication towards non-experts. Project lead and participation.In scientific software: computational fluid dynamics, adaptive methods. High performance computing, API-design, software development communities.In IT: database design, functional programming and OO design.

Listed skills include Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, Scientific Computing, Latex, and 14 others.

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  Jan 2021 - Present - Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

  Research Software Architect with a focus on the Delft3D Flexible Mesh Suite for hydrodynamic modelling. In this role I translate stakeholder wishes to software design and development planning, leading development teams and advising higher management.Experience ranges from numerical analysis to HPC and cloud-based deployment and running to API-design to coupled software systems, across multiple programming languages.Initiator of the collaborative development community HYDROLIB for automated modelling pipelines using Python. Core team member research programme "Water Resources" / Water Security, linking surface water and groundwater and management of scarce water resources.