Laurens Van Der Helm
Co-Founder at Selkio Oy
Espoo, Finland
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Top SchoolLaurens Van Der Helm is a Co-Founder and applied AI/ML practitioner with a decade of software engineering experience rooted in full‑stack development and data science. Based in Espoo and pursuing advanced studies at Aalto University, he blends academic rigour with hands‑on product delivery—from mentoring and refactoring legacy financial systems at Visma to developing data-driven solutions as a data scientist. He has experience maintaining CI/CD, SAST-driven security practices, and translating complex business requirements into usable features. As a teaching assistant he honed his ability to explain technical concepts and debug real problems, a skill he now applies to early‑stage company building. Musically trained as a cellist, he brings disciplined creativity and pattern recognition to engineering and AI work.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer, Communication and Information Sciences, Master of Science, Computer, Communication and Information Sciences at Aalto UniversityMatriculation Examination, Matriculation Examination at Etelä-Tapiolan lukioMusic Diploma, cello, Music Diploma, cello at Avonia Music Institute
Swedish, French, Dutch, English, FinnishProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Laremies/Full-Stack-2022-exercises
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:49 commits, 48 pushes in 2 months
Laremies/Advent_of_Code_2022
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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