Lode Nachtergaele
Machine Learning Engineer at dataroots
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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RockstarLode Nachtergaele is a Machine Learning Engineer with 12 years of experience applying data science and AI across industry and research settings, currently building ML solutions at dataroots in Leuven. His career spans senior data science roles at Colruyt Group where he moved models into production, and earlier creative research and media engineering positions that blend technical depth with product-oriented thinking. He started as a scientific researcher and project manager at IMEC, gaining long-standing expertise in power-intensive DSP algorithm design that informs his pragmatic approach to efficient model development. Comfortable bridging research and commercial deployment, he has a track record of shipping practical ML features for retail and media contexts. Colleagues describe him as a long-term collaborator who pairs systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation. An often overlooked strength is his background in intrapreneurship and creative media projects, which gives him an eye for user-centric ML applications.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
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Github Skills (78)
python10
azure-devops10
collections10
spellchecker9
azure9
levenshtein-distance9
pymc9
bayesian-inference9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cast42/fastpages-blog
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Blog of cast42
Contributions:128 commits, 15 PRs, 123 pushes in 2 years 9 months
cast42/get-popular-tweets-about-deredactie
Nov 2013 - Nov 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
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