Chris Van Es
Head Of AI at Instil
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Van Es is a Head of AI and seasoned technology leader with 14 years of experience advancing AI and engineering teams from Belfast. He has progressed through hands-on engineering to senior leadership at Instil, shaping product, policy-aware strategy, and delivery as Head of Technology and Director of Engineering before taking the AI helm. Known for organizing complex stakeholder networks, Chris blends technical depth with strategic instincts developed advising senior executives on international economic and finance policy matters. He is passionate about the intersection of geopolitics, business and public policy, bringing that systems-level perspective to AI governance and product decisions. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous problems into executable roadmaps that balance risk, impact and cross-functional alignment.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computer Science, MEng, Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast
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Github Skills (79)
tag-cloud10
jenkins-api-plugin9
jenkins-plugin9
jenkins-pipeline9
lambda8
prompt-engineering8
jenkins8
aws8
sst8
serverless-framework8
aws-lambda8
csharp8
golang7
jooq7
code-generator7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
instil/jenkins-pipeline-dsl-plugin
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:45 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 7 months
jenkinspipelinedslextensionsjenkins-build
instil/jenkins-pipeline-steps
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
A collection of build steps for use with Jenkins pipelines
Contributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 7 months
jenkinspipelineandroidjenkins-pipelinesteps
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