Daniel Vliegenthart
Senior Data Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Vliegenthart is a pragmatic senior data engineer and technical leader with over a decade of experience building scalable data pipelines, serverless systems, and ML-driven document-search products. Currently at Meta after leading engineering and CTO roles at Parsel.ai, he combines hands-on delivery—designing partitioned S3 datalakes, high-throughput ETL, and hybrid semantic+sparse search—with people leadership across cross-functional teams. He excels at turning research-grade NLP, OCR and LLM prototypes into production services, having architected cost-efficient, parallelized processing of hundreds of millions of JSONs and document Q&A systems. A TU Delft data science MSc and former CTO, he brings a curiosity-driven approach to reducing technical debt, improving observability, and shipping practical solutions that save customers time and cut errors.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Internship Nature Language Processing & Information Retrieval, Internship Nature Language Processing & Information Retrieval at National Institute of InformaticsMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science: Data Science & Technology, Master of Science - MS Computer Science: Data Science & Technology at Delft University of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Biology, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Biology at University of Waterloo
Dutch, English, French, German
Github Skills (40)
click-tracking9
html8
viewer8
user-tracking8
mvc8
rails8
tracking-pixels8
ruby8
lambda-layers7
ruby-on-rails7
activerecord7
pipeline6
aws-lambda6
pdf6
lambda5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vliegenthart/coner_interactive_viewer
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Coner Collaborative NER Pipeline Module: Interactive PDF Viewer
Contributions:1 release, 289 commits, 4 PRs in 7 months
nerpdfpipelinepdf-viewerviewer
vliegenthart/coner_collaborative_ner
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:51 commits, 6 pushes in 2 months
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