Mathias Vanden Auweele presenting at the ERA Railway Data Forum 2024 in Verona

MatData

Mathias Vanden Auweele

Data consultant

About

MatData specializes in data consulting services for railway companies, focusing on strategic planning, modeling, and architecture. We also handle development, data engineering, and DevOps challenges. Our expertise is rooted in a deep understanding of the railway system, an extensive industry network, and proficiency in standardization techniques like Linked Data.

We offer courses and workshops to enhance your team's knowledge of railway and data topics. With over 15 years of experience in railway infrastructure data strategy, GIS data science, and the design and development of measurement systems, we have tackled a wide range of data problems.

MatData actively participates in international initiatives such as railML, Openrail, and ERA ontology, ensuring we stay at the forefront of industry standards and innovations.

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Data consultant

  • Birthyear: 1985
  • Website: www.matdata.eu
  • Phone: +32 491 16 16 88
  • City: Between Brussels and Leuven, Belgium
  • Age: 39
  • Degree: Master in engineering
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  • Freelance: Available

Years of experience

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Summary

Mathias Vanden Auweele

Innovative data freelancer with over 15 years of experience developing user-centered and data-centric IT systems. Starting from business idea and going all the way a solution in production and even beyond.

Education

Master in engineering, energy

2007 - 2009

KULeuven, Belgium

Completed magna cum laude.

Master in industrial engineering, electromechanics

2003 - 2007

GroepT Leuven, Belgium

Completed magna cum laude.

Professional Experience

Teamlead data centricity

2022 - 2025

Infrabel, Brussels, Belgium

  • Lead the migration toward a data centric software landscape
  • Be the data single point of contact for a department of 9000+ employees
  • Steer the application landscape and implement the digital strategy
  • Manage and improve the data quality
  • Portfolio manager for data projects

Project lead digitalisation

2020 - 2022

Infrabel, Brussels, Belgium

  • Design and produce innovative digital solutions to improve the different activities of Infrabel Operations (maintenance, construction, operation, logistics, ...)

Project lead strategic project reporting

2017 - 2020

Infrabel, Brussels, Belgium

  • Align the innovation projects with the internal strategic vision
  • Project prioritisation and portfolio management
  • Implement a strategic project/program reporting system
  • Setup a PMO office

Engineer catenary data cell

2009 - 2017

Infrabel, Brussels, Belgium

  • Responsible for OCL measurement systems & all related IT
  • Responsible for work management system of catenary
  • Expand the technical inventory and develop supporting tools
  • Participation in CEN/CENELEC and EIM/ERA working groups
  • Uniformisation of the catenary design principles

My expertise

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Contact

Feel free to get into contact with us, using any of the methods below.

Address

Bogaertstraat 11
1910 Kampenhout
Belgium

Call Us

+32 491 16 16 88

Email Us

Company number

VAT BE 1015.480.825