Kevin Jacobs
Data Scientist
Limburg, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Jacobs is a data scientist and PhD candidate based in Limburg, Netherlands, with 11 years of experience at the intersection of NLP/NLU, information retrieval, and applied data science. He blends academic research at Maastricht University and practical risk-focused analytics at RiskStudio with earlier roles in industry (KPN, QSight IT) and a long-standing background in web development. His career includes scientific benchmarking of big data frameworks during a CERN internship and hands-on text-mining research at Radboud and Wageningen, reflecting both engineering depth and research rigor. Comfortable shipping production systems and prototypes, he also maintains roots in software development through ongoing work at Tuxx.nl. Colleagues describe him as someone who thinks deeply about how people search and interpret information, turning those insights into robust, real-world solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Data Science, Master of Science (MSc) Data Science at Radboud UniversityBachelorgraad Software Science, Bachelorgraad Software Science at Eindhoven University of TechnologyElzendaal college BoxmeerComputer Science, Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
English, netherlands, German, French
Stackoverflow
4,124reputation
645kreached
38answers
97questions
pycharm
top-5%
python
top-5%
Github Skills (80)
metron9
chatbot9
nlp9
python9
cython9
language-processing9
turkish9
pycharm9
artificial-intelligence9
text-classification9
corenlp8
javascript8
chatgpt8
fairness-ml8
arabic-nlp8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kevin91nl/salience-detection
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:41 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
kevin91nl/terasort-latency-spark-flink-plot
Aug 2016 - Jul 2022
Benchmarking for Apache Spark and Apache Flink.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
benchmarkingflinkapachesparkapache-flink
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