Projects

Slidesearch
A searchable knowledge layer for professional-services firms. Slidesearch brings presentations, proposals, and deliverables into reach for people and their agents, so valuable work can be found and reused instead of starting from scratch.
↗ Open project

Padeldichtbij
Make one link, share it in the group chat, and let everyone add their address. Padeldichtbij works out everyone’s travel to each venue and ranks the courts to find one that works for the whole group.
↗ Open project

Achieving smoothness in spatio-temporal autoregressive modelling
In my Master’s thesis, I adjusted the SPLASH model to stimulate smoothness among coefficients in a spatio-temporal setting, through novel integrations of the graph-guided fused LASSO in the estimation framework.
↗ Read the thesis (PDF)

Learning-to-Rank: Expedia Hotel Searches
In this project, I attempt to solve the Learning-to-Rank problem applied to Expedia hotel searches, providing a solution to the Expedia personalised-sort Kaggle competition.
↗ Kaggle competition

Cancer subtype classification with sparse dimensionality reduction methods
This project compares the performance and usability of alternative sparse formulations derived from PCA, with an application to cancer subtype classification using high-dimensional gene-expression data.
↗ Read the study (PDF)

Ensemble Voting for cryptocurrency price prediction
During my Bachelor’s thesis, I created an ensemble of machine-learning models to predict cryptocurrency price movements using high-frequency OHLC price data and derived indicators.
↗ Read the thesis (PDF)

Evolutionary Computing: training a game-playing agent
This project optimizes a neural-network controller for an agent in a game similar to Mega Man. Evolutionary Computing is employed to optimize the parameters of the neural network instead of mainstream backpropagation.
GitHub coming soon
Experience
Senior AI Engineer
Rewire · Jun 2021 – Present
Building data and AI solutions that turn business problems into working software.
Co-Founder
Slidesearch · Jan 2026 – Present
A searchable knowledge layer for professional services firms.
Teaching Assistant
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · Apr 2023 – Jun 2023
Teaching Assistant for Data Mining Techniques in the MSc Computer Science programme.
Academic Tutor
FBSB · Sep 2020 – Jan 2022
Tutoring in Mathematics, Statistics, and Econometrics.
Earlier roles & activities
Day Coordinator LED 2022
Landelijke Econometristendag · Jan 2021 – Feb 2022
Chairman, Landelijke Econometristen Sport Toernooi (LEST)
Study Association VSAE · Jan 2020 – Dec 2020
Treasurer, VSAE Weekend committee
Study Association VSAE · Feb 2019 – Dec 2019
Chauffeur
Sjauf Technologies · Jan 2019 – Oct 2020
Round Employee
Case Electronics · Jun 2016 – Aug 2019
Sales and customer service, repairing and testing computers and phones, and workplace and network installation.