Frederik Durant
Co-Founder And CTO at Prompt! BV
Dilbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolFrederik Durant is a seasoned AI and NLP technologist with over two decades of experience and eleven years focused on engineering leadership, productizing conversational AI and recommendation systems. As Co-Founder and CTO of Reavant and Managing Director of Prompt! BV, he blends hands-on ML engineering with strategic roadmap execution, having led bilingual chatbot platforms and production-grade recommender APIs using Rasa, Python and cloud CI/CD. His background spans startups and large enterprises—shaping NLU teams at Nuance, driving data innovation at Colruyt Group, and delivering customer-facing AI at BNP Paribas Fortis—always emphasizing test-driven development, DevOps and scalable pipelines. Frederik’s interdisciplinary training (MA, MSc, MBA) and early roots in philology give him a rare edge in aligning linguistic nuance with machine learning solutions. He’s as comfortable defining technology strategy as he is writing the preprocessing pipelines and deployment scripts that make prototypes run in production.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Exchange Student Computational Linguistics, Erasmus Exchange Student Computational Linguistics at University of EssexData Science Bootcamp Data Science, Data Science Bootcamp Data Science at Metis (New York City)MSc Computer Science (spec. Computational Linguistics), MSc Computer Science (spec. Computational Linguistics) at KU LeuvenSecondary Education Ancient Greek - Mathematics, Secondary Education Ancient Greek - Mathematics at Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege, BrusselExecutive MBA General Management, Executive MBA General Management at Vlerick Business School
Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
python7
streamlit7
machine-learning7
deep-learning6
data-visualization6
developer-tools6
data-science6
data-analysis5
pandas5
fastest4
bokeh2
large-language-models1
retrieval-augmented-generation1
retrieval1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fdurant/kiva_project
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:64 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
fdurant/fdurant_github_io_source
Jan 2015 - Dec 2022
Repo containing the Jekyll source files only (so *not* the generated _site/* files)
Contributions:90 pushes in 8 years
jekylljekyll-sourcesource-files
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