Jan-pieter Van Den Heuvel
Principal Software & Machine Learning Engineer at Piozum
Utrecht Area Netherlands
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Top SchoolJan-pieter Van Den Heuvel is a Principal Software & Machine Learning Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, production-grade ML and distributed systems for logistics and e-commerce. He blends data science, data engineering, software architecture and DevOps to deliver time-series forecasting and capacity management solutions in production using Scala/Kotlin/Java, Python, Databricks, TensorFlow and Kafka. At DHL he progressed from senior Scala developer to lead and now principal, driving cross-team knowledge sharing through guilds and hands-on mentorship. He has a long history designing fault-tolerant back ends with Akka, Kafka and Cassandra, and runs his own venture, Piozum, reflecting entrepreneurial initiative alongside enterprise impact. Notably, his background in operations research and optimization informs practical ML solutions that focus on operational adoption and maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Utrecht UniversityGymnasium, Gymnasium at Minkema College
Github Skills (116)
pii10
google-cloud-platform10
metadata10
gcp10
data-lineage10
google-cloud10
maven10
governance10
data-validation10
sbt10
data-profiling10
data-contracts10
data-catalog10
metadata-management10
gradle10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jan-pieter/dotty
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
The Scala 3 compiler, also known as Dotty.
Contributions:51 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 4 months
compilerscaladotty
jan-pieter/AdventOfCode
Dec 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:82 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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