About
I work on AI and Engineering for the Dutch Government, currently as Staff Engineer at the Nederlandse Digitale Dienst, where I primarily work on RegelRecht - an exploration into machine-executable legislation. I also run Axolotl Systems, where I provide ML engineering and platform consulting services one day per week alongside my government work, including working as ML Engineer at Ditto. Before this, I was Engineer at the Bureau Architectuur Digitale Overheid (BADO), and before that Engineering Manager of the AI Validation Team.
I used to be Machine Learning Engineering Manager in the Search team at Spotify. Before joining Spotify, I spent almost 4 years at DPG Media in various roles, all contributing towards a push for personalisation of news products. Before that, I was a research scientist at Google AI in London and a data scientist at Blendle in Utrecht. I hold a PhD from the University of Amsterdam where I studied self-learning search engines. I interned at Bing/Microsoft Research in Cambridge UK and Yandex in Moscow. My publications have received over 1790 citations (Google Scholar).
CV
For a full overview of my appointments, education, students, talks, publications, and activities, see my CV.
Archive
Long before any of the above, in 2007–2008, I set off from Amsterdam by bicycle towards Beijing — and got as far as India and back, overland. The travel blog I kept along the way (in Dutch) is preserved as a little archive.