Melvin Roest
AI Engineer & Consultant at InnSpire
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMelvin Roest is an AI engineer and consultant with 13 years of experience building production-grade AI systems and teaching teams to adopt them. He combines full-stack development (Python, React, Flask, GCP) with tooling for data engineering (BigQuery, Airflow, Snowflake, dbt) to turn fragmented data and pilots into scalable products. His background in psychology and cybersecurity (penetration testing) gives him a rare blend of user-centered design, behavioral insight, and secure-by-design engineering for regulated environments like the EU AI Act. Melvin specializes in agentic AI with RAG and semantic search, keeping humans in the loop for critical decisions while automating high-volume workflows. He finds impact by digging into context—data, support logs and users—to uncover overlooked AI opportunities and rapidly prototype solutions that reach tens of thousands of users. Available for placements via InnSpire, he pairs rapid experimentation with practical adoption and governance.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Master of Science (MSc), Information Studies - Game Studies, Master of Science (MSc), Information Studies - Game Studies at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch, German, Italian, French
Github Skills (168)
continuation10
fallback10
force-touch10
gemstone9
pharo9
php9
smalltalk9
chinese-simplified9
pressure9
color-palette8
php-framework8
pointer-events8
javascript8
emberjs8
semantic-web8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
melvinroest/doodledocs
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
An app for collaborative doodling via a p2p library called Bugout with RoR websocket bindings as fallback
Contributions:174 commits, 1 PR, 70 pushes in 1 year
reactp2pdoodlingfallbackwebsocket
melvinroest/Seaside
Mar 2022 - Jul 2023
The framework for developing sophisticated web applications in Smalltalk.
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
web-applicationsdevelopingsmalltalk
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