Jonatan Samoocha
Caregiver, Co-founder at Vortza
Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJonatan Samoocha is a machine learning engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building production-ready AI systems and data pipelines. As co-founder of Vortza and founder of Fithaxx, he turned endurance-sports data into deployable models and customer-facing apps that predict performance and cluster workout types. He combines hands-on model development with cloud and DevOps skills—maintaining scalable infrastructure, CI/CD, and API integrations—to reliably move models from prototype to production. His consultancy and multi-day trainings show a knack for translating ML concepts into practical Python skills for large retailers and consultancies. An active open-source contributor, he improved robustness and testing for the popular stravalib client by adding API mocking and integration tests. With an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam, he pairs academic grounding with pragmatic engineering and product sense.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Artificial Intelligence, M.Sc., Artificial Intelligence at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (14)
api10
pytest10
python10
apidoc10
documentation9
git7
android-intent6
lucene6
pandas6
posixct6
android6
data-cleaning6
r6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stravalib/stravalib
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Library to provide simple client interface to Strava's REST API (v3).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 305 reviews, 58 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jonatan primarily focused on improving the stravalib library by addressing bugs and enhancing its robustness. Key contributions include fixing deserialization errors, preventing timezone-related crashes, and removing non-existent API endpoints to ensure CI build success. Additionally, the user modernized the testing framework and introduced integration tests using mock API responses. They also updated documentation, enhanced the CI/CD pipeline, and implemented API mocking.
apipythonapi-v3stravagpx
jsamoocha/stravalib
Aug 2017 - Apr 2023
Library to provide simple client interface to Strava's REST API (v3).
Contributions:85 pushes, 44 branches in 5 years 8 months
apiapi-v3stravapixrest
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