Koen Verschuren
Founder at Nxt Phase AI
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolKoen Verschuren is a founder and data innovation leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack AI and data platforms from prototype to production. He has founded multiple companies—including Nxt Phase AI and BigData Republic—and led data strategy and digital teams at top Dutch firms, translating advanced ML research into low-latency, scalable services for real-world products. His background spans the full stack: streaming and high-throughput systems (Kafka, Akka/Scala), distributed storage (Cassandra, HBase), and production APIs and orchestration. Koen’s career started in applied AI research and early custom software shops, giving him a rare blend of teaching, product engineering and consultancy skills that help bridge technical teams and business stakeholders. Based in Amsterdam, he combines entrepreneurial grit with enterprise delivery experience, often focusing on pragmatic, measurable impact rather than academic novelty. An educator at heart, he has also taught mathematics and designed adaptive e-learning features early in his career, reflecting a persistent interest in usable intelligence.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master Artificial intelligence, Master Artificial intelligence at Radboud UniversityVWO degree Nature and health, VWO degree Nature and health at Koning willem 2 college
English, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (17)
spray10
cassandra7
science7
streaming7
azure6
restful6
azure-automation6
dynamic-content6
azure-data-factory6
akka6
scala6
json6
spark6
postgresql6
kafka5
Github contributions (5)
Digibeet/Shootout
May 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:74 pushes in 8 months
coral-streaming/coral-streaming.github.io
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes in 1 day
coralstreaming
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