Arjaan Buijk
Senior Customer Success Engineer at Rasa
Plymouth, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolArjaan Buijk is a seasoned software and customer success engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling conversational AI, developer tools, and production-ready bots. Based in Plymouth, Michigan, he has progressed through technical and managerial roles at Rasa—contributing code to core open-source repos like rasa and rasa-demo while leading customer success engineering and director-level teams. He combines deep backend and DevOps skills (CI/CD, testing, slot validation, CLI improvements) with product-facing expertise, helping enterprises deploy contextual AI assistants and integrating them into real-world workflows. As a founder and DFINITY grantee, he also explores running Rasa on novel platforms like the Internet Computer, signaling a taste for platform-level innovation. His background in computational fluid dynamics and decades of engineering leadership bring disciplined systems thinking to AI products and enterprise deployments.
9 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree, Self-Driving Car Engineer, Nanodegree, Self-Driving Car Engineer at UdacitySpecialization Certificate in Deep Learning, Specialization Certificate in Deep Learning at Deeplearning.ai on CourseraMaster’s Degree, Aerospace Engineering / Computational Fluid Dynamics, Master’s Degree, Aerospace Engineering / Computational Fluid Dynamics at Delft University of TechnologyCourse: MongoDB for developers, Course: MongoDB for developers at MongoDB UniversitySpecialization Certificate in Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine, Specialization Certificate in Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine at Google on Coursera
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Github Skills (33)
conversation10
ras10
back-end-development10
python10
testing10
command-line-interface10
forms10
sdk10
rasa10
natural-language-processing10
command-line10
nlp10
backend10
cli10
cicd9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
RasaHQ/financial-demo
May 2020 - Sep 2021
A demo for a financial services bot
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 188 commits, 61 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Arjaan primarily contributed to the development and improvement of the Rasa chatbot, focusing on features and infrastructure. The commits show work on end-to-end testing, the conversion of forms, and the implementation of rules. Additionally, the user was involved in setting up the development environment and debugging tools within an IDE, demonstrating an understanding of DevOps practices.
financialpythonbotfinancial-services-botrasa-starter-pack
RasaHQ/rasa-demo
Nov 2019 - Apr 2021
:tiger: Sara - the Rasa Demo Bot: An example of a contextual AI assistant built with the open source Rasa Stack
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 147 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Arjaan contributed to the Rasa demo bot, primarily focusing on action and API improvements. They added and modified FAQ functionalities, corrected event parsing from HTML, and refactored code related to intent handling and fallback mechanisms. They also updated dependencies and addressed various bug fixes and enhancements across the project, including adjustments to the email validation process.
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