Hi, my name is

Dennis Van de Vorst

Senior AI/ML Engineer

Open to new assignments

Based in Utrecht, specialised in AI, machine learning, MLOps platforms, and data engineering. I help companies transform data into tangible value through scalable, production-grade AI or ML solutions.

11+
Years Python
6+
Years Engineering
4+
Years AI/ML Engineering
Dennis Van de Vorst

Projects

May 2026Oct 2026
Stedin
Sr. AI/ML Platform Engineer

Designed and implemented monitoring and alerting functionality for Stedin's MLOps platform, improving the stability and reliability of model predictions across the entire organisation.

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Jun 2025May 2026
Holland Casino
Sr. AI/ML Platform Engineer

Designed and built a completely new data lakehouse on AWS with Databricks, Airflow, and Airbyte, replacing the existing Microsoft SQL Server data platform and SageMaker ML environment.

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Feb 2025Jun 2025
PostNL
Sr. Data Engineer

Expanded PostNL's Data Lake v2 platform on AWS and migrated existing pipelines from their v1 platform to the new v2 platform.

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Jan 2025Feb 2025
Efteling
AI/ML Engineer – MLOps Workshop

Designed and delivered a two-day interactive AI/MLOps workshop tailored to the Efteling's infrastructure needs.

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Feb 2023Jan 2025
Enexis
AI/ML Engineer

Delivered four ML projects with measurable impact: €25M in cost savings through predictive maintenance of smart meters, €350K/year saved and a more stable grid through grid loss forecasting, plus safer field work and winter outage-risk detection.

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Dec 2022Feb 2023
Compost Cultuurfonds
AI/ML Engineer – NLP Sentiment Platform

Built an AI-powered Twitter sentiment analysis platform using ROBBERT (Dutch BERT) to help emerging cultural talents monitor social media engagement.

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Nov 2022Dec 2022
Manufy
AI/ML Engineer – CoC Compliance

Developed a scalable ML solution on Azure to monitor B2B chat messages for Code of Conduct compliance.

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Dec 2020Nov 2022
AME
Engineer

Wrote automated Python tests for embedded systems and designed Python APIs for equipment interfacing.

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Sep 2012Sep 2017
University Racing Eindhoven
Software & Electronic Engineer

Built real-time telemetry, a CAN bus data logger and CAN analysis tooling in Python and C for TU/e's electric Formula Student race car, and designed its complete wiring harness.

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Open Source Contributions

Apache Spark
Merged PR

Fixed incorrect Java version requirements in the PySpark 3.5 documentation.

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Podman
Issue Report

Identified and documented a bug with nested rootless Podman containers on WSL.

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Snowflake Connector Python
Issue Report

Reported a timezone handling bug when writing timestamps to Snowflake.

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Skills

Python
Advanced · 11 yrs
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Git
Advanced · 11 yrs
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Linux
Advanced · 11 yrs
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CI/CD
Advanced · 6 yrs
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Machine Learning
Advanced · 4 yrs
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MLOps
Advanced · 4 yrs
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Docker/Podman
Advanced · 3 yrs
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AWS
Advanced · 3 yrs
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PySpark
Advanced · 3 yrs
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Airflow
Advanced · 3 yrs
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Data Engineering
Advanced · 2 yrs
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GenAI
Advanced · 2 yrs
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Data Science
Intermediate · 2 yrs
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Snowflake
Intermediate · 2 yrs
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SQL
Intermediate · 2 yrs
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Databricks
Intermediate · 1 yr
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ArgoCD
Intermediate · 11 mo
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Helm/Helmfile
Intermediate · 11 mo
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Kubernetes
Intermediate · 11 mo
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Terraform/OpenTofu
Intermediate · 11 mo
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Azure
Beginner · 6 mo
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Education

2017 – 2020
Eindhoven University of Technology
MSc Electrical Engineering

Thesis: Machine learning and computer vision models to improve hyperthermia treatment

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2012 – 2017
Eindhoven University of Technology
BSc Electrical Engineering
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Contact

Company Princeps-AI
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Email
Phone
Kvk 42131695
Btw NL005524448B10