Ian Shen
Senior Data Scientist Tech Lead
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Shen is a Senior Data Scientist and Tech Lead based in Utrecht with 10 years of experience turning GenAI and ML research into production-grade products. He leads LLM-based applications, agentic workflows, and evaluation pipelines while building ML infrastructure and MLOps practices that keep models deployable and monitored at scale. His background spans clinical NLP research during a PhD to telecom and consumer applications such as voice transcription and email analysis, giving him a rare bridge between biomedical text mining and commercial AI products. Ian is skilled at collaborating with product and operations teams to translate ideas into measurable business outcomes and mentors engineers in CI/CD and model monitoring. He favors pragmatic, reproducible systems—bringing tools like Docker, Airflow and MLflow into production—and has a track record of shipping solutions that prioritize both accuracy and operational robustness.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information System and Information Management, Bachelor, Information System and Information Management at Anhui UniversityPh.D., Applied Data Science, Ph.D., Applied Data Science at Leiden UniversityMSc, Business Informatics, MSc, Business Informatics at Utrecht University
English, Chinese, Dutch
Github Skills (45)
webgl10
threejs10
javascript10
visualization10
python10
lifecycle10
incremental-learning10
model-management10
dvc10
ai10
maps10
data-visualization10
deck-gl10
geospatial-analysis10
flask10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ianshan0915/mlflow
Mar 2019 - Sep 2022
Open source platform for the machine learning lifecycle
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
pythonlifecyclemlmachine-learningdvc
ianshan0915/clinical-opensource-projects
May 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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