Jeroen Dries
Senior R&D Professional/IT Architect
Jeroen is leading various openEO <https://openeo.org/> related projects at VITO, including the Copernicus Dataspace Ecosystem openEO federation and ESA openEO platform. As one of initial designers of the specification, he has been contributing to many of the components, as well as running projects on the Terrascope and CDSE openEO platforms. As a side project of openEO work, he is also involved in building STAC catalogs and contributing to FAIR data management in practice.
Making complex things look simple is quite complex.
Before that he was working for multiple years on building earth observation platforms and applications, including Terrascope, the Proba-V mission exploitation platform and WatchItGrow. By working on various topics from installing hardware in the datacenter to building frontends and everything in between, he gained a lot of experience, which is useful in his current role as lead architect and software engineer.
After obtaining a Master’s degree in Applied Sciences in the field of Computer Science at KU Leuven, Jeroen stayed in Leuven for 4.5 years to work as a Software Engineer. His first job at Eyetronics included working on an image processing application for 3D scanners. Afterwards, he joined Luciad to work on their high performance geospatial software library.
