Summary
Jeroen Schmidt is a Senior Data Engineer with nine years of experience building and scaling large data platforms and ML pipelines across industries, currently enabling major data and ML migrations at Booking.com. He combines a strong academic foundation in computational and applied mathematics (BSc) and a nearly completed MSc in Data Science from the University of Amsterdam with hands-on expertise in Spark, Python, Bazel monorepos, and cloud-native tooling. Jeroen has driven platform-level improvements—data devex, CI/CD maturation, test coverage uplift from 0% to 80%—and has led migration and tooling efforts for petabyte-scale systems. His background spans end-to-end ML solutions, from city-scale parking imputation research to production recommendation and logistics optimization projects for enterprise clients. Known for turning technical debt into repeatable frameworks, he bridges data science and engineering to deliver reliable, data-driven products. Outside of core engineering, he has a track record of mentoring junior teams and translating complex analytics into business impact.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science with Honour's Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science with Honour's Computational and Applied Mathematics at University of the Witwatersrand
Machine Learning Nano Degree Machine Learning, Machine Learning Nano Degree Machine Learning at Udacity
Master of Science (Cum Laude) Data Science , Master of Science (Cum Laude) Data Science at University of Amsterdam
High School, High School at Crawford International
English, Spanish, Afrikaans, Dutch