Summary
Lucas De Haas is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience building production-first personalization and ranking systems, currently working on user-level content valuation at Spotify. He has led end-to-end ML efforts—from streaming feature pipelines and real-time personalized push services to unifying batch and stream processing with Spark Streaming and Delta Lake—delivering measurable engagement gains at scale. Previously he improved Rasa’s open-source conversational AI stack by bridging research and production, and as a team lead at DPG Media he combined hands-on engineering with people leadership and onboarding. He holds a cum laude MSc in Artificial Intelligence and a strong interdisciplinary background in social psychology and liberal arts, which informs his pragmatic, user-centered approach to ML. Known for turning research prototypes into reliable, reproducible pipelines (Docker, MLflow, SageMaker) and for improving CI/CD and test reliability, he thrives on making complex models maintainable and fast in production.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Liberal Arts and Sciences, 8.0/10 (GPA: 4.0), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Liberal Arts and Sciences, 8.0/10 (GPA: 4.0) at Utrecht University
Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish