Jan Kuipers
Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Elastic
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Kuipers is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer based in Utrecht with a rare combination of deep academic rigor and hands-on engineering across Google, Yahoo, bol.com and Elastic. He holds a PhD in theoretical and mathematical physics, two master’s degrees in physics and math, and has 10+ scientific publications, bringing principled modeling and statistical thinking to production ML systems. Jan has driven search, recommendation and backend architectures at scale—most recently leading ML efforts at Elastic after senior engineering and tech-lead roles at consumer and e-commerce platforms. A former TopCoder Open algorithms champion, he blends competitive programming instincts with research-grade problem solving to optimize latency-sensitive and data-intensive pipelines. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex math into reliable, testable code and to architect systems that support experimentation and rapid iteration.
2 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Theoretische en mathematische fysica, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Theoretische en mathematische fysica at Utrecht University
Github Skills (15)
rally10
restful10
search-engine10
elasticsearch10
opensearch10
observability10
elastic10
visualizations10
kibana10
java10
benchmarking9
cpp9
machine-learning8
specification8
database4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jan-elastic/elasticsearch
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:2 pushes, 23 branches in 6 months
elastic/ml-cpp
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Machine learning C++ code
Contributions:39 reviews, 10 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 1 month
cppmachine-learninglearning-c
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