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```{r preparecode, echo=FALSE, cache=FALSE}
library(ggplot2)
library(knitr)
```

# Bram Jans

### Rails Developer

*Looking for a new challenge!*

<a href="https://github.com/bramj" target="_blank">
  <img width="80px" src="/assets/img/bram.jpg" />
</a>

<p style="font-size:0.5em;font-style:italic;">Use the arrow keys on your keyboard or in the lower right corner for navigation</p>

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# Education
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### [2010–2011] Master of Engineering - Computer Science
- University of Leuven, Cum Laude
- Specialization Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence
- Thesis: Construction and evaluation of databases of narrative event chains
- 5 months exchange at Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

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### [2006–2009] Bachelor of Informatics
- University of Leuven

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# Projects
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## DataCamp
<div class="projects">
<a href="https://www.datacamp.com" target="_blank" class="mask">
  <img src="/assets/img/datacamp_screenshot.png" />
  <div class="caption">  
    <h3 style="color:#4D4D4D">Interactive learning platform</h3>  
    <ul>
      <li>Interactive environment for learning R</li>
      <li>I did development for the DataCamp backend, a RESTful API in Ruby on Rails</li>
      <li>The backend interacts with an Angular.js front end and connects to R servers in the cloud</li>
      <li>Hosting on Heroku and Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, etc.)</li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</a>
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## Rdocumentation
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<a href="http://www.rdocumentation.org" target="_blank" class="mask">
  <img src="/assets/img/rdocs_screenshot.png" />
  <div class="caption">  
    <h3 style="color:#4D4D4D">R documentation aggregator</h3>  
    <ul>
      <li>Rails app that maintains documentation of R packages</li>
      <li>Automatically updates the documentation by connecting to an R server on EC2</li>
      <li>Websolr indexation for fast full-text searches</li>
      <li>Hosted on Heroku</li>
    </ul>
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# Skills
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### Technical
```{r skills-plot, fig.height=4, fig.width=10, fig.align = 'center', results='asis', echo = FALSE, cache = FALSE}
df = data.frame(c("Ruby (on Rails)", "SQL", "HTML/CSS", "R", "Javascript"), c(8, 7, 6, 6, 5))
colnames(df) = c("language", "score")
d = ggplot(data=df, aes(x=language, y = score, fill = score))
d = d + geom_bar(position="dodge",stat="identity") + coord_flip()
d = d + theme(axis.text.x = element_text(size=24, family="Helvetica"),axis.text.y = element_text(size=24), axis.title.x=element_blank(), axis.title.y=element_blank())
d = d + theme(
    panel.background = element_rect(fill = "transparent",colour = NA), # or theme_blank()
    panel.grid.minor = element_blank(), 
    panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
    plot.background = element_rect(fill = "transparent",colour = NA)
)
d
```
<p>
  <small>Also: Git, Heroku, Amazon (EC2, S3, RDS, etc.), Linux, Python, Node.js</small>
</p>

### Non-technical
<small>Dutch (native) - English (advanced) - Spanish (advanced) - French (intermediate)</small>


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## Contact

#### ik@bramjans.com

<a href="https://github.com/bramj" target="_blank">
  <i class="fa fa-github fa-2x"></i>
</a>

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