Koen Lekkerkerker
Principal AI ML Engineer at Cruise
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKoen Lekkerkerker is a Principal AI/ML Engineer based in Greater Boston with 12 years of engineering experience and a strong track record in autonomous vehicles and robotics. He led programs from concept to roadworthy product in the Netherlands, including WEpods and the I‑AT public transport project, and has progressed to principal-level AI/ML work at Cruise. Methodical and diplomatic, he builds high-performing teams and implements tooling and CI/CD practices that shrink the gap from idea to deployment. His background in systems & control and mechanical engineering gives him a deep understanding of both algorithmic and physical system constraints. Notably, he has hands-on experience owning end-to-end delivery in regulated, real-world vehicle programs—bringing research-grade robotics into operational road use.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Systems & Control, Master's Degree, Systems & Control at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (200)
catkin10
visual-studio10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
federated10
nvidia-docker10
robotics10
ecosystem10
editor10
autonomous-vehicles10
golang10
sshfs10
pylint10
container10
electron10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
koenlek/ros_lemtomap
Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:98 commits, 2 pushes, 4 comments in 5 months
koenlek/datashape
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
Language defining a data description protocol
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 months
binary-formatabstract-syntax-treedslquery-language
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