Rutger Rauws Council Member & Software Engineer

About me

Hi! Welcome on my homepage. My name is Rutger Rauws, and I am a 29-year-old Council Member and Software Engineer living in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

I was born and raised in the city of Almelo, The Netherlands. After studying Computer Science at Delft University of Technology for a year I moved to Eindhoven and continued studying Computer Science. During my academic carreer I shifted focus from Windows and .NET to GNU/Linux and languages such as C++. My interest lies in low-level software development and computer graphics.

Nowadays I am still an active software engineer, I'm also active as a local council member for the party GroenLinks. If you wish to learn more about my political activities, have a look at my party's personal page or follow me on social media. Please find other information about me below. Feel free to contact me using the contact information at the top of the page.

Work experience

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Municipal Council Member, GroenLinks Eindhoven, Eindhoven
Fighting climate change and injustice is the basis for everything I do.⁠ The consequences of the climate crisis are already evident. It is impossible to find an affordable home and the gap between rich and poor is widening. These are the issues GroenLinks aims to tackle. If we don't, the planet will get increasingly warmer and our society increasingly poorer. GroenLinks is the only party that connects both green and left-wing politics. We combine idealism with decisiveness: we are successfully governing Eindhoven as the largest progressive party comprising. As a council member I am working on creating more affordable and sustainable housing. A fairer Eindhoven for everyone.
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Senior Software Engineer, Sioux Technologies, Eindhoven
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Teaching Assistant, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven
During my master's I was asked to work as a teaching assistant (TA) for a bachelor's course in Computer Graphics. My responsibilities included helping students with questions regarding homework exercises and grading their work.
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Intern, Sioux Embedded Systems, Eindhoven
For my graduation project I successfully extended Sioux' in-house developed model-driven development tool. My contribution focused on automatically verifying state machines with hardware interlocks using the formal specification language and toolset called mCRL2. Additionally, I proposed specifying interlocks using a subset of natural language called SBVR and implemented this as a proof of concept.
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Intern, Philips Medical Systems, Best
In the Clinical Platforms team of Philips I worked on adapting an existing algorithm that is used to convert 2D greyscale images coming from medical scanners to 3D volumes. The focus of my study was on developing an efficient method to distribute the ray casting algorithm over a cluster of heterogeneous accelerators. My contribution was part of the final demonstration application used to show the capabilities of the European Union subsidised MANGO project
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Owner, Rauws ICT, Eindhoven
My company specialized in writing custom software for customers. Projects I have taken on were: maintaining a website and providing on-site support for a local store; writing custom software for converting label print formats.
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Backend Developer, Difference Media, Delft
During my time in Delft I wrote and maintained webpage parsers in CoffeeScript with Node.js for the website 1dagskoopjes.nl, a website that collects and lists the best daily deals for their customers. Next to that, I developed a proof of concept Windows 8 Modern-UI application.

Education

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Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology
Software Science stream. Average grade: 8
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Bachelor's degree in ICT & Technology
Fontys University of Applied Sciences
Minor in Embedded Systems. Combined with pre-master. With honors.
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
Degree incomplete
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Delft University of Technology
Degree incomplete
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Pre-university secondary education (VWO)
Het Erasmus, Almelo
Nature & Health: Research & Design, Mathematics A, Physics, Biology, Chemestry, English, Dutch, German, Compuer Science, Classical Cultural Education.

Additional activities

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EHVXL, Co-founder, secretary, Eindhoven
Together with four other persons I have founded a non-profit organisation called ”EHVXL”. This platform, with hunderds of members and thousands of followers on social media, focuses on the urbanisation of the city of Eindhoven. EHVXL tries to inform and enthuse citizens about future architecture and urban planning in the Eindhoven area. As a board member and secretary I was responsible for communication with the municipality and real-estate developers.
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Eindhoven in Beeld, Volunteer, Eindhoven
The non-profit organisation called ”Eindhoven in Beeld” collects historic and actual photo and video material of the city of Eindhoven. With over 150.000 photos on record, it is very challenging to make all this information available to the users of their website. The current website is lacking responsive and consistent design, as well as a solid architecture. On a voluntary basis I have taken on the challenge to design and develop a new website that tries to address these issues.
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Photography
As a hobby I have taken on photography. I have a passion for architecture but try to explore different fields, such as portrait and wedding photography. A collection of photos I have taken can be found on my Instagram page.
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School magazine, Co-editor-in-chief, Almelo
During secondary school, I have spent the last three years as co-editor-in-chief and graphic designer of the local school magazine. I corrected articles, designed all pages, and ensured that these pages would be at the publisher on time.