Gerben Oostra
Machine Learning Engineer at Dexter Energy
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGerben Oostra is a machine learning engineer and tech lead with 11+ years of experience bringing prescriptive ML models into production and scaling them via robust data engineering. He blends a strong software engineering foundation and a MSc in Algorithmic Systems with hands-on MLOps, causal inference, uplift modeling and large-scale pipeline design across AWS, Kafka, Flink and Docker. Gerben has driven technical roadmaps, coached teams, and co-created business strategy at an early-stage consultancy, pairing delivery with mentorship and business development. Notable for turning research-y techniques (bandits, causal methods) into deployable products, he prefers solving inefficiency through elegant algorithms and pragmatic engineering. Based in Haarlem, he continues to split his time between hands-on implementation and guiding others to productionize complex ML systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of TwenteMSc Computer Science - Algorithmic Systems (a.k.a. Applied computer science), MSc Computer Science - Algorithmic Systems (a.k.a. Applied computer science) at Utrecht University
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (178)
dependency-management10
github10
python10
package-management10
fits10
bitrix10
random-forest10
python-packaging10
azure-devops10
stacked10
dependency-manager10
gaussian-mixture-models10
pca10
bootstrapping10
gitlab10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BigDataRepublic/bdr-analytics-py
Jul 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:67 commits, 9 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 11 months
scientistslicenseddata-analysispythonanalytics
gerbenoostra/poetry-plugin-mono-repo-deps
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
Poetry plugin for mono repos to replace path dependencies with named dependencies
Contributions:27 PRs, 85 pushes, 22 branches in 10 months
monorepopoetry-pluginpoetry-python
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