Halftone portrait of Jacco Broere

Hi, I'm Jacco

Developer. Problem solver. Curious by nature.

I'm a Senior AI Engineer at Rewire and co-founder of Slidesearch. I build data and AI systems and enjoy turning ideas and problems into real solutions. Have a look around my work, experience, and side projects.

Projects

Slidesearch knowledge search interface with slide and document results

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.

Padeldichtbij project preview showing a professional padel match on a blue court

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.

Achieving smoothness in spatio-temporal autoregressive modelling project preview

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.

Learning-to-Rank: Expedia Hotel Searches project preview

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.

Cancer subtype classification with sparse dimensionality reduction methods project preview

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.

Ensemble Voting for cryptocurrency price prediction project preview

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.

Evolutionary Computing: training a game-playing agent project preview

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.

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.

Education

Minor, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

University of Amsterdam · 2020 – 2021

Grade 9.3/10.

Gymnasium

Gymnasium Camphusianum · 2012 – 2018

Documents

Contact

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