Martijn Van Der Veen
Senior Software Development Engineer - Image Optimisation
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMartijn Van Der Veen is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of international experience blending computer vision, NLP and large-scale production systems, currently leading image optimisation efforts at Amazon. A former co-founder and CTO, he has hands-on experience shipping consumer-facing platforms that fuse 3D printing, photorealistic rendering and automated production workflows. His background combines an MSc in Computer Graphics, Vision & Imaging and a BSc in Artificial Intelligence with deep applied work across AWS, PyTorch and SageMaker to build inference platforms and precompute CV pipelines. Martijn contributes to open educational resources in deep learning through careful technical writing and documentation improvements, reflecting a knack for clarifying complex ML concepts. A tinkerer off-hours (electronics and woodworking), he thrives on diving into technical detail while keeping product impact front and center, and is especially interested in ML roles in robotics, AR/VR, autonomous systems and voice interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Grammar school (Gymnasium), Grammar school (Gymnasium) at Eerste Christelijk Lyceum HaarlemBachelor of Science - BS, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (Cum Laude, Cum Honore), Bachelor of Science - BS, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (Cum Laude, Cum Honore) at University of Amsterdam1st year, Electrical Engineering, 1st year, Electrical Engineering at Delft University of TechnologyMaster of Science (MSc), Computer graphics, Vision and Imaging (Cum Laude), Master of Science (MSc), Computer graphics, Vision and Imaging (Cum Laude) at University College London, U. of London
English, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (13)
deep-learning10
documentation10
machine-learning9
riak6
css6
etl6
nlp6
svg6
browser6
aws-glue6
javascript6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-emr6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zackchase/mxnet-the-straight-dope
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
An interactive book on deep learning. Much easy, so MXNet. Wow. [Straight Dope is growing up] ---> Much of this content has been incorporated into the new Dive into Deep Learning Book available at https://d2l.ai/.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs in 12 days
Contributions summary:Martijn's commits primarily focus on correcting typos and refining the language within the documentation of the `mxnet-the-straight-dope` repository, which is an interactive book on deep learning. Their contributions span various chapters, including crash courses, linear algebra, deep neural networks, and recurrent neural networks. These edits enhance the clarity and accuracy of the content, improving the overall quality of the educational resource.
pytorchd2lmxnetdeep-learninghas-content
turiphro/barcode-shopping-list
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
A shopping list that can be operated with a barcode scanner
Contributions:23 commits, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 4 months
scannerbarcode-scannershopping-listbarcodeshopping
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