Johan Schuijt
AI & Data Engineer
Axams, Tyrol, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolJohan Schuijt is an AI & Data Engineer with four years of hands-on experience building data-driven products and infrastructure across startups and NGOs. Currently developing PoliLoom at OpenSanctions, he focuses on extracting and validating politician metadata from Wikipedia and the wider web to improve transparency and data quality. His background spans full-stack development, UX design, and founding a backend-focused hosting startup, giving him a rare blend of frontend sensibility and production-grade data engineering. At Follow the Money he designed data infrastructure and a RAG-based PDF application, demonstrating practical application of retrieval-augmented methods. Based in Axams, Tyrol, he’s passionate about mastering emerging technologies to make machines empower humans and often approaches problems with a product-minded, user-centric lens.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Game Development, Game Development at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesMedia Technology, Media Technology at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Github Skills (84)
dashboard10
postgresql10
graph-database10
tesseract10
clojure10
database10
mysql10
pdf-files10
git-workflow10
slack10
visualization10
pdf10
markdown9
metabase9
wikijs9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
followthemoney/aleph
Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 54 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 9 months
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opensanctions/poliloom
Jun 2025 - May 2026
Help build the world's largest open database of politicians.
Contributions:250 pushes, 7 branches, 47 comments in 11 months
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