🤖 Jeroen Vlek Email & Phone Number

The Hague, ZH, NL

Amsterdam

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Led a team of 4 people towards a rebuild of a serverless OCR application in a high visibility environment with intense stakeholder attention. Handed over the project to an outsource team after delivering the MVP. Technologies used: Claude 3, Python, Textract, Lambda, S3, SQS/SNS, Terraform and GitLab.

For more info see: https://www.perceptivebits.com/

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

Built a new highly modular Everything-as-Code Azure data platform (called SIDAP) with an excellent team. Completely automated CI/CD in Azure Devops. The platform has different subscriptions per DTAP environment and every end-user group also having its DTAP environment subscriptions. Separate Terraform statefiles for modular (and faster) deployment..

As a hands-on interim CTO I was part of the MT and helped SphereMall improve on different levels.On a strategic level I helped steer the company by planning features for all products, resources and customer requests, while being the linking pin between Business and Tech. On a human resource level I developed the team towards the right skill set, coached.

Lead the organization to become a recognized thought leader on data, software and AI. Greatly increased innovation by promoting knowledge sharing on all levels.Responsible for all technical expertise at Anchormen, headed the Data Science and Engineering departments (~ 55 people). Incubated both the MRO and Data Hub solutions, which are now successfully.

Groningen, Netherlands

Made our clients more data driven and cost-effective. Projects included the design and implementation of data solutions e.g. recommendation engines, predictive maintenance, sentiment analysis, precision marketing.

Hamburg

A startup that accelerated and improved business strategy development. A platform which detects accelerating innovation signals on the web and provides tools for qualitative analysis of those signals. The platform consisted of a Python micro-service architecture, with a NumPy based topic-model (nHDP) and a Titan-Hbase graph backend.

Hamburg Area, Germany

Allowed a big retailer to revolutionize their E-Commerce platform. Team lead for a service development team which implemented several services in a SOA environment. Implemented a high performance pricing engine with hot-swappable calculation schemas from SAP.

Hamburg Area, Germany

Became Java Lead of Seafight in April 2012. Greatly extended the lifetime of a 6 year old project by reducing technical debt and bringing new features. Team lead of 6 people. Introduced Guice, EasyMock unit testing, code reviews, continuous integration, GIT and an effective branching and release strategy. Implemented DB caching, a new AI, flexible and.

Hamburg

Became Dev Lead of Kultan in December 2012Main achievement: Implemented a distributed persistent guild system using Eclipse Link and ActiveMQ and created a 'winter setting' in the client using shaders.

Developed a website for a crossword puzzle manufacturer.

Developed location based services using Google Maps.

Team size of approximately 50 telemarketing agents

M.Sc, Artificial Intelligence

Thesis at Fraunhofer Institute, Berlin: “Projective Invariant Correspondent Localization in Structured Light” (Languages used: C++.

B.Sc, Computer Science Amsterdam

Amsterdam (NL) / Berlin (D) · First year of studies: Artificial Intelligence · Thesis at Konrad Zuse Institute, Berlin: "Reducing latency.

High School, Bilingual Vwo