Ian Fitzpatrick
Owner at Brain Bytes B.V.
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Fitzpatrick is a freelance Tech Lead and founder with 11+ years of hands-on experience bringing AI and ML systems into production, now running Brain Bytes B.V. after senior leadership roles including CTO and Managing Director at Y.digital. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in Neurolinguistics and postdoctoral research in cognitive neuroimaging—with pragmatic engineering across hardware, OS, and cloud stacks to design privacy-, security- and reliability-minded AI solutions. Ian has led cross-functional teams to deliver containerized AI platforms for document processing and conversational AI, winning commercial traction and rapid growth (FD Gazelle award) while cultivating a non-hierarchical culture of trust. His consulting work spans predictive maintenance, dynamic line rating for energy grids, and automated processing of technical documentation that produced measurable cost savings. Equally comfortable in research and enterprise delivery, he emphasizes systemic thinking: production-grade ML requires understanding the full technology stack, not just models.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Neurolinguistics, Ph.D. Neurolinguistics at Radboud UniversityB.Sc. Psychology, B.Sc. Psychology at Leiden UniversityVWO, VWO at R.S.G. Het Rhedens
English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (40)
vmware9
charts9
helm9
mbsync8
bitnami8
kubernetes8
controlling7
docker7
neo4j6
emacs6
matrix6
mkv6
developer-tools5
guix5
subtitle5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ifitzpat/ob-docker-build
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
ifitzpat/kubel
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
Emacs extension for controlling Kubernetes with limited permissions
Contributions:2 PRs, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
emacspermissionskubernetescontrolling
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