Nicolaas Smit
Full Stack Engineer at Delta Labs AG
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolaas Smit is a Full Stack Engineer and founding engineer turned tech lead with 12 years of experience building scalable web and AI-powered products from data pipelines to customer-facing dashboards. Based in Geneva, he has led R&D and product engineering efforts—from architecting RAG/semantic-search platforms with Python, Azure and vector databases to designing prompt frameworks, document parsing pipelines and safety/evaluation loops for production AI. As CTO at Ranova he cut build and deployment times by 55% through DevOps improvements and database redesigns, and at EPFL contributed to performant, accessible web interfaces for large-scale neuroscience datasets. He pairs hands-on coding across backend, search and frontend stacks with product ownership, roadmaps and cross-functional collaboration. Notably, he has experience extracting high-quality embeddings from messy PDFs/HTML and operationalizing them into analytics and search features customers can use. His background spans startups and research labs, combining pragmatic engineering with an appetite for applied ML and data-driven productization.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Criminal Justice/Economics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Criminal Justice/Economics at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Economics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Economics at Exeter University
English, Afrikaans, French
Github Skills (20)
skos10
server-side-rendering10
nexus10
redux10
shacl10
javascript9
scala9
typescript9
graph9
knowledge-graph9
nodejs9
react9
science9
data-driven8
storybook7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
voodoolabs/neuro_words
May 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:29 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
voodoolabs/mcnulty
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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