De Vocht
Chief Scientific Officer at SimSage Ltd.
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDe Vocht is a Chief Scientific Officer and serial founder with 30+ years of programming and AI experience, currently leading research and product development at SimSage Ltd. He designs and ships practical NLU/NLP systems and semantic search technologies, having built IP and products like SYL Search, SimSage and Virtual Spectator. His background blends symbolic AI, deep learning, and big-data engineering—skills honed across startups and enterprise roles including Syl Limited, Booktrack and Datacom. Comfortable as a full‑stack developer and CTO, he pairs hands‑on implementation with strategic roadmapping to bring research into production. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, he holds an MSc in Computer Science (AI) from the University of Auckland and has a track record of turning advanced semantic ideas into usable platforms. Notably, he combines decades of symbolic-AI intuition with modern deep‑learning NLU practice, giving him a rare cross-paradigm perspective.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at The University of Auckland
German, French, English, Italian, Dutch
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Github Skills (54)
speech-to-text10
keyword-extraction10
stopwords10
natural-language-understanding10
raspberry10
tensorflow10
google10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
sentence9
linguistics9
cluster-computing9
extraction9
bert9
speech9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rock3125/tts
Dec 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
rock3125/simsage-dotnet-server
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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