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I am a senior AI/ML engineer with over a decade of experience turning data into decisions. My work blends mathematical rigor with practical product delivery, building scalable data architectures and AI solutions across energy, government, finance and tech. I value clarity, collaboration and impact, and I am motivated by solving complex problems that drive real value for organizations.
I enjoy working in multidisciplinary teams and bridging the gap between data and business outcomes, from concept to production. I am curious, reliable and eager to learn, continuously refining prompts, models and data pipelines to deliver measurable results.
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Work Experience
AI Engineer at VNG
January 1, 2025 - November 7, 2025Developed a RAG-based GenAI chatbot with a dynamic multi-collection vector search system. Implemented context retrieval from multiple document collections, ensuring privacy-by-design and scalable, reusable infrastructure. Delivered via Docker Compose; backend built with Kotlin/Ktor and Koog AI; front-end chat widget for municipalities; gathered user feedback to iteratively improve prompts and search quality.
Senior Data Engineer at Shell
January 1, 2025 - January 1, 2025Designed and implemented scalable data architectures, modernizing a legacy ETL to support multiple markets and data streams. Streamlined data flow with Backbone as a primary datasource, automated CI/CD pipelines, built unit and end-to-end tests, and fostered cross-team collaboration and mentoring to improve delivery reliability.
Senior Data Scientist at Shell
July 1, 2023 - July 1, 2023Contributed to data science initiatives within energy forecasting and trading. Built scalable forecasting solutions, collaborated closely with Product and trading teams to align technical direction with business goals, and delivered dashboards/tools to refine forecasts with domain knowledge.
Senior Data Scientist at Alliander
July 1, 2021 - July 1, 2021Led data science workstreams including a geo-spatial planning dashboard in Shiny and ML-based hours forecasting for capacity planning. Developed ETL processes, built predictive models for norm hours and deviations, and translated operational needs into scalable data-driven solutions.
Data Engineer at Aegon
September 1, 2019 - September 1, 2019Automated and improved complex data processes and financial reports (AnaCredit, IKBDGS). Accelerated reporting, increased reliability, reduced manual effort, and provided technical guidance to the data management team while improving data quality and flow.
Data Scientist at Randstad
March 1, 2019 - March 1, 2019Developed a probabilistic Bayesian model to estimate labor market tightness at the occupational level, enabling targeted recruitment strategies. Performed data cleaning, ETL, model tuning, production deployment and stakeholder storytelling.
Data Scientist at NLE Energy
March 1, 2018 - March 1, 2018Built data-driven retention strategies for energy customers with expiring contracts using Random Forests to optimize offers and channels. Implemented multi-step retention processes and cross-sell analytics to maximize customer value.
Senior Data Scientist at RVO
June 1, 2022 - June 1, 2022Extracted insights from text data using NLP techniques (topic modeling, TF-IDF, NER) to identify policy-relevant themes and inform reporting. Automated extraction of key entities and topics to support policy analysis.
Education
Master Operations Research & Quantitative Logistics at Erasmus University
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025Pre-Master Operations Research & Quantitative Logistics at Erasmus University
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025Master Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis & Management at TU Delft
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025Bachelor Technische Bestuurskunde at TU Delft
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025VWO at Nova College
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025Qualifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025AWS AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025Big Data Foundations (Hadoop & Spark) – Cognitive Class
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025Databricks Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025Databricks Get started with Databricks for Data Engineering
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025Databricks Dagster Essentials
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025MongoDB Associate Developer
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025Intro to TensorFlow for Deep Learning – Udacity
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025Industry Experience
Energy & Utilities, Government, Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services
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