Reinout van Schouwen

Current

Project lead and software developer at Huygens Institute
Member at GNOME Foundation
Epiphany developer at GNOME project

Coordinator Dutch translations (volunteer) at Mandriva Linux

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Past

Software engineer at Rotterdam CS
Contributor at jEdit Project
Student Assistant at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Education

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

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Reinout van Schouwen’s Summary

I have experience in Java web application development; my goal is to broaden my knowledge to work with Wicket and other languages like Ruby and Scala.

Reinout van Schouwen’s Specialties:

Distributed Hash Tables; Java-based web applications

Reinout van Schouwen’s Experience

Project lead and software developer

Huygens Institute

(Research industry)

July 2008 — Present (6 months)

The Huygens Instituut researches (scientific) texts in the field of humanities and I work on making the results accessible online.
Member

GNOME Foundation

(Computer Software industry)

2004 — Present (4 years)
Epiphany developer

GNOME project

(Computer Software industry)

2002 — Present (6 years)

Epiphany is a light-weight web browser that is well-integrated in the GNOME desktop environment,
Coordinator Dutch translations (volunteer)

Mandriva Linux

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2001 — Present (7 years 4 months)

This (unpaid volunteer) job encompasses translating English software messages into Dutch, and proofreading + correcting other's Dutch translations. I have contributed translations to various Free Software projects, most notably Mandriva Linux and GNOME.
Software engineer

Rotterdam CS

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 2 months)

Development of Java/Struts based,oepn source web applications
Contributor

jEdit Project

(Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2006 (7 years)
Student Assistant

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 2000 — July 2005 (4 years 11 months)

Teaching and evaluating of students in lower course-years, especially introduction to Java programming and data structures.

Reinout van Schouwen’s Education

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

drs, Artificial Intelligence, 1996 — 2006

Activities and Societies:

External relations commissioner in the STORM study association board, 1999-2000
Co-chairman of the Study trip committee Ireland 2002;
Member of both Faculty and University student councils, 1999-2001
Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet

1988 — 1996