Mick Vleeshouwer
Sr. Startup Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMick Vleeshouwer is a Sr. Startup Solution Architect at AWS with 11 years of experience designing scalable cloud and GenAI solutions for startups and enterprises. He blends hands-on software engineering with architecture expertise, having driven GenAI strategy, reusable field assets, and technical wins that translated into significant recurring revenue while shortening deployment timelines. At Microsoft he influenced product roadmaps, added Dutch language support to core language tooling, and contributed open-source work—most notably expanding Dutch recognition in Microsoft.Recognizers.Text and improving Home Assistant integrations. He enjoys proving new technology value through demos and agentic applications, and brings a practical bent for solving real-world problems. Based in Amsterdam, he balances technical leadership with active mentoring and a background in building production integrations and APIs.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Metropolia University of Applied SciencesVWO (pre-university secondary education) Science and Engineering (NT), VWO (pre-university secondary education) Science and Engineering (NT) at Pontes Pieter ZeemanBachelor of Science (BSc) HBO-ICT Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) HBO-ICT Information Technology at HZ University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (24)
parserator10
parser10
entity-extraction10
python10
asyncio10
number-recognition10
iot10
dotnet-core10
du10
home-assistant10
nlp10
csharp10
home-automation10
testing9
mqtt8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Recognizers-Text
May 2018 - Jun 2021
Microsoft.Recognizers.Text provides recognition and resolution of numbers, units, date/time, etc. in multiple languages (ZH, EN, FR, ES, PT, DE, IT, TR, HI, NL. Partial support for JA, KO, AR, SV). Packages available at: https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text, https://www.npmjs.com/~recognizers.text
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 33 commits, 34 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mick primarily focused on adding and implementing Dutch language support for the `microsoft/recognizers-text` repository. Their contributions involved translating and integrating Dutch-specific components such as the ChoiceRecognizer, NumberModel, NumberWithUnit, and DateTimeModel. They translated definitions, implemented .NET code, updated tests, and fixed edge cases to ensure accurate entity recognition in Dutch. The user's work significantly expanded the repository's language support capabilities.
kebab-casepythoncorpus-linguisticsprefixmicrosoft
home-assistant/core
May 2018 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:705 reviews, 106 commits, 204 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mick's contributions primarily involve the Overkiz integration, a system for home automation. They focused on improving the integration by addressing exception handling within the Overkiz integration, adding features like an operating time sensor and a "My Position" button. The user also worked on adding support for new devices, like the AtlanticHeatRecoveryVentilation, and enhancing duration features related to boost and away modes. These commits suggest a focus on improving functionality and expanding device compatibility.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
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