Benjamin Van Der Burgh
Co-Founder & CTO at Spirefly
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBenjamin Van Der Burgh is a Co-Founder & CTO with 11 years of experience building data-driven products and back-end systems, currently leading technology at Spirefly from Amsterdam. With an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Leiden University, he blends deep data science and scientific programming skills with practical engineering in Python, Java and Go. His background spans academic research and industry roles—helping build AI-assisted medical records, sports analytics platforms and sustainability-focused software—showing a knack for applying machine learning to real-world workflows. At Metabolic he bridged biodiversity and climate initiatives with automated software for sustainability strategy, demonstrating product-first thinking alongside technical ownership. Known as a sociable, enthusiastic nerd, he balances hands-on coding (currently prototyping a synthesizer) with leadership and product stewardship. Colleagues would note his rare combination of academic rigor, full-stack pragmatism and a taste for great coffee.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Leiden University
English, Dutch, German
Stackoverflow
83reputation
2kreached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (200)
datasets10
deep-learning10
speech10
command-line-tool10
two-way10
pandas10
computer-vision10
nlp10
multiclass-classification10
cli10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
raspberry-pi-pico10
evaluation10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminvdb/mining_recipe_data
Jul 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
benjaminvdb/DBRD
Feb 2019 - May 2021
110k Dutch Book Reviews Dataset for Sentiment Analysis
Contributions:3 releases, 24 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 4 months
nlppythondatasetnlp-machine-learningscraped-data
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