Eelke Hermens
Chief Technology Officer at The Difference Engine
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolEelke Hermens is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 15+ years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations across fintech, healthtech, agritech, and media. He specializes in AI engineering—designing and shipping LLM-powered products, agentic systems, RAG pipelines, and privacy-first ML platforms that move from prototype to production in regulated environments. As a fractional and interim CTO he advises teams of 10–200 on AI strategy, platform migrations, and technical due diligence, with hands-on expertise in SOC 2, PCI-DSS, GDPR, PSD2 and AML compliance. Previously he led secure, cloud-native fintech platforms and high-traffic media systems, and has repeatedly turned constrained data environments into reliable ML products. Based in Amsterdam, he combines board-level clarity for investors and leadership with pragmatic engineering audits and vendor-neutral risk assessments. An early founder-CTO, he brings both startup grit and enterprise-grade governance to AI transformation initiatives.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor's Degree Artificial Intelligence at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Master's degree New Media Studies, Master's degree New Media Studies at University of Amsterdam
English
Github Skills (193)
reverse-proxy10
code-completion10
security10
webserver10
extensible10
acme10
api10
flow-based-programming10
golang10
colours10
dataflow-programming10
http-server10
redux10
async9
javascript9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
eelkeh/react-croppy
Sep 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:63 commits, 1 PR, 44 pushes in 1 year
reactimagepure-reactsunrisereact-image
eelkeh/curious
Feb 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:33 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 11 months
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