Chris Van Den Berg
Senior Elastic Engineer at MINDEF (NL)
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Van Den Berg is a Senior Elastic Engineer and tech lead with 11 years of experience building large-scale surveillance, fraud detection, and ML-driven analytics platforms in finance. He has led global teams across Americas, EMEA and APAC, reducing false positives and mitigating multi-billion-dollar regulatory exposure through production-grade NLP, entity resolution, and voice surveillance systems. Hands-on with Python, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Kafka, and FastAPI, he designed an ingestion pipeline that transcribes and processes over 10,000 calls per day and maintains multiple TB/day clusters. Comfortable both as a developer and people manager, he hires, mentors, and coordinates cross-regional codebases and platform strategy. Trained as an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, he pairs academic foundations with practical engineering—often applying LLM-based tooling like Whisper for real-world surveillance problems. Outside core projects he freelances and brings a background in forensic tech and banking analytics that sharpens his risk-aware approach to data systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Artificial Intelligence, MSc Artificial Intelligence at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)VWO Nature and health profile including Math 2 and Chemistry 2, VWO Nature and health profile including Math 2 and Chemistry 2 at Rijnlands Lyceum Oegstgeest
Github Skills (52)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Bergvca/pyspark_dist_explore
Jul 2017 - Aug 2019
Data Exploration in PySpark made easy - Pyspark_dist_explore provides methods to get fast insights in your Spark DataFrames.
Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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daspots/dasapp
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:31 PRs, 73 pushes, 18 branches in 7 months
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