Michael Verdegaal
AI Engineer at Dutch Flower Group
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Verdegaal is an AI Engineer based in Rotterdam with 8 years of experience building production-grade ML systems that move from prototype to deployment. At Dutch Flower Group he designed a forecasting framework that improved long-term planning and is now implementing generative AI agents and RAG-based retrieval on Azure AI Foundry. His background blends data science and backend engineering—shipping autonomous irrigation models and high-volume time-series backends at Growficient and practical ML tooling for startups. A Python enthusiast, he pairs hands-on coding with MLOps practices like CI/CD and model versioning to make models reliably operational. Notably, he brings practical domain knowledge in AgriTech and a track record of introducing developer productivity tools such as GitHub Copilot.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English, Japanese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (45)
anomaly-detection9
forecast8
python8
forecasting8
time-series8
hacking8
data-science7
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
reverse-engineering7
extensible7
cpp7
discord-py6
database6
excel6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelVerdegaal/McDowellBot
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
THE discord bot for custom reactions.
Contributions:16 PRs, 122 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
discord-jsdiscordbotdiscord-botreactions
MichaelVerdegaal/InfluenceOrbitMapper
Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
Influence orbit visualization and route planning
Contributions:1 PR, 101 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 4 months
visualization
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