Camiel Kerkhofs

Hello! I’m Camiel Kerkhofs

I am a skilled AI engineer who is passionate about machine learning and data science. I am a quick learner and a team worker that gets the job done. I can implement state-of-the-art AI solutions to solve your evolving business problems in a society that is increasingly driven by data.

Age:

28

Experience:

5+ years

Region:

Maastricht, The Netherlands

My Skills

I have experience working on every part of the data journey. Whether you have a pile of unstructured data or you already know exactly what indicators you are looking for, I have the tools to get a solution into production from start to finish.

Machine Learning

Data Mining

Data Engineering

Software Development

My Technology Stack

Our field moves incredibly fast. A good understanding of these core technologies allows me to adapt quickly and pick up new state-of-the-art methods on the fly.

Deep Learning: PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras90%

Python: PySpark, SciPy, scikit-learn, Pandas90%

Databases: SQL & NoSQL80%

Cloud & Deployment: Azure & AWS75%

Visualization: Power BI, QuickSight70%

Web Development: PHP, Node.js, Angular70%

Other Languages: Java, C++, C#, R60%

Agile Project Management60%

Experience

Data Scientist & AI Engineer

Conclusion Mediaan (2020 - present) 4 years

As a Data Science & AI consultant, I have assumed varied responsiblities across multiple organizations:

I worked as a Lead AI Engineer on a large-scale generative AI platform
I worked as a Machine Learning Engineer on Optimization, Computer Vision and NLP projects
I worked as an MLOps Engineer implementing scalable ML production pipelines (AWS & Azure)
I worked as a Data Engineer implementing ETL pipelines for multinational corporations
I worked as a Business Intelligence Consultant delivering actionable insights to a global market leader
I worked on research projects exploring state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence technologies
I supervised data science interns working on research & development projects

Data Science Internship

Conclusion Mediaan (2019 - 2020) 1 year

Jan 2020: MSc Thesis: Emerging Intent Discovery For Conversational Dialog Models
May 2019: Research internship covering advanced concepts of NLP including multi-lingual text embeddings, sentiment analysis, sequence tagging and text classification.

Junior Software Developer

Ivengi.com (2017 - 2019) 2 years

Design and implementation of a search engine for Dutch legal texts using Elasticsearch, PHP web scraping and NLP.

Part-time backend developer. Responsibilities included developing new features and updating production systems.

Junior Software Developer

NLcom | Slim in ICT (2015 - 2017) 1.5 years

Research position focussing on automated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Test Driven Development (TDD)

Worked as part-time developer implementing automated test cases using Selenium Web Driver and JBehave

Education

MSc Artificial Intelligence

Maastricht University (2018-2020)

Maastricht University's Artificial Intelligence master’s program focuses on the development and application of computer systems that simulate human intelligence, learning, reasoning and collaboration. These systems are used to solve challenging problems in today's world.

BASc Software Engineering

Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (2013-2017)

The core coursework covered computer architectures and programming, data structures, algorithms, and logic and computation. An emphasis is placed on soft skills and requirements engineering. Electives included data science, mobile app development and search algorithms.

Certification

Azure Data Scientist Associate

Microsoft (2022)

Demonstrated subject matter expertise applying data science and machine learning to implement and run machine learning workloads on Azure.

Professional Scrum Master I

Scrum.org (2018)

Demonstrated a fundamental level of Scrum mastery, proving an understanding of Scrum as described in the Scrum Guide and the concepts of applying Scrum.