Hello, it’s Niek
I am a senior AI & Machine Learning Engineer who designs, builds and deploys production-ready ML systems. From the model to the backend to ML Ops.
5+ years.
Zero demos.
All production.
I build AI systems that are meant to run in the real world and not just impress in a notebook. From model design to backend integration to MLOps, I own the full lifecycle so you don't have to stitch together three different specialists.
My experience
Freelance @ STRV, Prague, Czech Republic
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Built recommendation engines, content moderation models, and audio classification tools using technologies like Elasticsearch, PyTorch, and AWS Lambda, while delivering talks on MLOps and online learning.
STIL, Delft, The Netherlands
Created AI systems for tremor classification using IMU data, supported clinical statistics, and managed backend APIs, deployments, and databases under strict cost constraints.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
O2, Prague, Czech Republic
Developed neural-network and XGBoost models for customer lifecycle segmentation and churn prediction, building large-scale PySpark data pipelines and deploying ML solutions across multiple telecom operators using Azure, Databricks and CI/CD automation.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Latest projects
Ascension Publishing
Together with the Ascension team I’ve created structure in their vast majority of publications by introducing an AI powered search engine.
Citizen Alerts
By leveraging the power of LLMs, I was able to create an application that helps people know what is going on the world around them.
What people say
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For STIL, Niek built a special ML ecosystem to identify and classify tremors. He lead the development of the full stack of a smartphone application, managed the ML, its implementation, production and testing pipelines, and hosting on our own infrastructure. Niek is an exceptionally capable, reliable, and pleasant ML engineer.
Nicola Pambakian
CTO, STIL