Bas Geerdink
Lead ML Engineer at Levi Strauss & Co.
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBas Geerdink is a Lead ML Engineer and founder with over a decade of experience building AI and big data systems, currently driving ML efforts at Levi Strauss & Co. He combines deep engineering skills in Spark, Flink, Akka, Kafka and Cassandra with architecture and application development experience to deliver pragmatic, production-ready solutions. A motivating team leader and regular speaker, he translates complex requirements into creative, customer-focused implementations and mentors colleagues to raise engineering standards. He co-authored practical books on AI infrastructure and data engineering, signaling a commitment to sharing operational best practices beyond research. Based in Utrecht, he blends academic training in AI with entrepreneurial experience from founding Aizonic, often favoring pragmatic patterns that accelerate time-to-value in real-world deployments.
11 years of coding experience
Master, Master at The University of ManchesterArtificial Intelligence: Cloud and Edge Implementations, Artificial Intelligence: Cloud and Edge Implementations at University of OxfordMasterclass, Masterclass at Nyenrode Business UniversityMaster, Master at Utrecht University of Applied SciencesMaster, Master at University of Groningen
Dutch, English, German, French
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Github Skills (34)
updating10
sound-files9
kafka9
streaming-analytics9
xps8
apache-flink7
pdf7
text-processing7
mupdf7
tesseract6
pymupdf6
python6
epub6
scanning5
data-extraction5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
streaming-analytics/Styx
Nov 2017 - Jan 2022
Streaming Analytics platform, built with Apache Flink and Kafka
Contributions:138 commits, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
apache-flinkkafkastreaming-analytics
geerdink/fast-data
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:78 commits, 29 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
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