Arthur Vercruysse

Developer for semantic Web developers. Building open-source developer tooling, streaming RDF pipelines, and Linked Data clients for the FOSS Semantic Web community. Same depth, any domain.

Experience

  • Ghent University

    February 2022 - present
    Remote - PhD in Computer Science Engineering
    Researching live, provenance-tracked knowledge graphs — built RDF-Connect and the Semantic Web Language Server to support this work.

  • DPG Media IT

    September 2021 - February 2022
    Remote - Full Stack Developer
    Developed and maintained the OIDC login system spanning DPG Media's entire portfolio of products, including automatic SSO and multi-tenancy.

  • Redpencil.io

    June 2021 - September 2021
    Ghent - Backend Developer (Student Job)
    Improved code quality and performance across the microservice-based mu-semtech open linked data stack, and expanded its feature set.

  • Sigasi nv

    July 2020 - September 2020
    Ghent - Backend Developer (Internship)
    Assisted R&D with improving code quality and performance across Sigasi Studio, an Eclipse-based editor.

  • Zeus WPI

    July 2019 - June 2020
    Ghent University - Vice President
    Co-organized events and led the student hacker space Zeus WPI.

Software Contributions

  • Semantic Web Language Server

    GitHub
    Main Contributor
    Implemented intellisense support for Semantic Web languages like Turtle and SPARQL, reaching 5,000+ installs and improving developer productivity and error detection.

  • RDF-Connect

    GitHub
    Main Contributor
    Developed streaming, cross-environment data pipelines with built-in provenance using RDF, adopted across the research lab and used in production projects.

  • LDES Client

    GitHub
    Main Contributor
    Built an asynchronous client to consume Linked Data EventStreams with relation filtering, facilitating real-time data integration.

Contact

Education

  • Ghent University

    • Master of Science in Computer Science
      September 2019 - June 2021
    • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
      September 2016 - June 2019

Publications

  • The Semantic Web Language Server: Enhancing the Developer Experience for Semantic Web Practitioners
    Vercruysse, J. Rojas Melendez, Pieter Colpaert
  • RDF-Connect: A Declarative Framework for Streaming and Cross-Environment Data Processing Pipelines
    Vercruysse, J. Pots, J. Rojas Melendez, Pieter Colpaert
  • Museum Monitoring: An Environmental Monitoring Dataspace Using The Things Network, Solid, and LDES
    Vercruysse, B. De Meester, J. Rojas Melendez, D. Suls

Technologies

  • Programming: Rust, Java, Python, C, C++, TypeScript, Common Lisp, Haskell
  • Frameworks: Rocket, Tokio, Svelte
  • Software: Unix, Git, MongoDB, LaTeX

Hobbies

  • Climbing boulders up to 7a, with regular trips to Fontainebleau.
  • Creating a custom importer and visualizer for Beancount (plain-text accounting).
  • Renovating my house, one room at a time.