Experience

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  Tim webdesign and webhosting

  Aug 2005 - Mar 2011

  Owner

  Web design, webhosting and basic corporate branding.

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  Delft university of technology

  Sept 2005 - Sept 2012

  Msc student

  Student Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the TU Delft.

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  Technische universiteit delft

  Jan 2007 - Jun 2007

  Student assistent

  Setting up and coordinating a tutoring program for tough first year courses.

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  Stichting divinelan

  Sept 2007 - Jul 2009

  Chairman

  Stichting divineLan is a foundation that organizes computer events in order to connect young people.

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  Study association s.v.t.b. curius

  Aug 2009 - Aug 2010

  Board member master and career

  Fulltime board member Master and Career for study association S.V.T.B. Curius, the study association for the TU Delft faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. Curius has 1000+ members and ±17 committees of 4-6 students each. Responsible for quality of 3 master programs, organizing career oriented events, coordinating several committees, implementing a new website and member administration, and running the master bookshop. Gained excellent expertise in working together as a team, leading teams, organizing events, communication and reflection. Show less

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  Vreelandgroep organisatieadviseurs

  Sept 2010 - Oct 2011

  Trainee

  Assisted several healthcare related consultancy projects. Responsible for data analysis and visualization, and the development of (web-based) tools. Tools: R, Excel, HTML/CSS

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  Stichting international research projects delft

  Jan 2011 - Oct 2011

  Research consultant

  Acquisition and execution of an international research project. Successfully conducted a 1.5 month field study for SKF in China, performing a mapping of the state of automotive research.

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  Vreelandgroep organisatieadviseurs

  Jan 2012 - Sept 2012

  Graduate intern

  MSc Thesis on reducing variability in ward occupancy by optimizing the operating room schedule. Developed a decision support system in R that was able to predict bed occupancy and help find beneficial changes to the surgical schedule under numerous constraints. Successfully applied the method at the Isala Klinieken hospital. Final grade: 8.

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  Vreelandgroep organisatieadviseurs

  Nov 2012 - Jan 2014

  Junior adviseur

  Advisory related to healthcare logistics in Dutch hospitals. Projects ranged from advising hospital management on strategic issues such as hospital profiling, to the optimization of healthcare processes such as the emergency department or operating room planning. Projects included extensive data analysis and visualization in R and the development of elaborate simulation models.Tools: R, HTML/CSS, AWS Cloud, Bash

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  Ing nederland

  Jan 2014 - Jun 2017

  Data scientist

  Responsible for setting up and running a big data cell (3FTE) within the arrears department in order to help customers sustainably recover from arrears. Projects included:- building classification models to optimize capacity utilisation of operation- maintaining a project pipeline with numerous A/B tests- the development of web-based tools to increase actionable insight in the customer situation and improve collector performance (used by 160FTE).- Automation of many manual processes such as building management information, gathering data online and enriching dataTools: R, Python, SQL, Javascript, HTML/CSS Show less

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  Ing españa&portugal

  Jul 2017 - Jan 2018

  Senior data scientist

  Built machine learning models to enable intelligent outsourcing for collections (classification/python). Helped build model deployment tools on big data cluster (bash/python). Trained local data scientists.

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  Ing

  Jan 2018 - Oct 2021

  Managing 15 data scientists incl. 11 direct reports. Part of ING Analytics, reporting to Chief Analytics Officer and Head of Financial Risk Modelling.Created a mature, stable, high-performing team that was a lot of fun to work with. Some highlights:- Culture of feedback focused on growth, both in code and in consultancy skills- Portfolio of high impact machine learning projects delivered (~10-15 projects/year)- Helped pioneer the first couple of ING’s machine learning open source libraries (probatus, skorecard and doing-cli)- Matured model governance and wide range of standards, both in model validation process and internal review processes.- Built a range of tools to make model documentation easier, including a comprehensive documentation template, a set of ML best practices, and a range of (personal) open source MkDocs plugins (see my open source work). Show less

  • Manager Data Science

    Mar 2019 - Oct 2021

  • Senior Data Scientist

    Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
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  Allianz direct

  Oct 2021 - now

  Responsible for setting up a new machine learning team from scratch. Reporting to Tribe Lead Technical.- Set up MLOps infrastructure incl. development platform, batch and realtime deployments. Stack highlights: azureML, databricks, MLFlow, Tekton, AWS, Docker, fastAPI- Managing 3 data scientists- Pioneering first ML use cases within Allianz Direct NL- Re-developed main motor insurance pricing models using machine learning- Built range of internal packages and tooling. Includes project templating, data pipelines, internal schemas and connectivity utilities. Show less

  • Manager Global Machine Learning Engineering Team

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Manager Data Science

    Oct 2021 - Aug 2023