Summary
Joop Ringelberg is a seasoned AI practitioner and software engineer with 11 years of recent experience and a career stretching back to the 1980s, blending research, product engineering and entrepreneurship. He founded and led multiple ventures delivering AI-driven planning, scheduling and educational technologies, and has built mission-critical platforms for organizations such as the Dutch National Police. Since 2018 he has operated The Art of AI, framing AI as a practiced craft informed by deep study under mentor Eduard Hoenkamp and a continual appetite for discovery. Joop also contributes to privacy- and ecology-minded peer-to-peer software at Perspect-IT, reflecting an interest in sustainable, decentralized systems. Trained with a master’s in Cognitive Science from Radboud University, he combines cognitive insight with practical system design to solve complex coordination problems. An enduring thread in his work is turning abstract AI concepts into deployed, user-focused solutions across public and private sectors.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
master, Cognitiewetenschap, master, Cognitiewetenschap at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen