Niels Egberts
Member Of Technical Staff, Health at Microsoft AI
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNiels Egberts is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with 13 years of experience building AI-driven healthcare and speech technologies, currently a Member of Technical Staff on Microsoft AI’s Health team in London. He has led engineering efforts at Google—spanning text-to-speech voice creation, embedded TTS teams, and as tech lead on Care Studio—and most recently served as Technical Lead at Phare Health before joining Microsoft. Comfortable switching between hands-on ML engineering (including work on generative language models for VR) and team leadership, he blends deep speech and language expertise with product-focused delivery in regulated domains. Trained as a computer scientist with a background in civil engineering, he brings both rigorous problem-solving and pragmatic systems thinking to complex, human-centered AI problems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
VWO Nature & Technology, VWO Nature & Technology at Ashram CollegeAeresteijnMaster Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
python, c++, java, javascript, sql, php
Github Skills (45)
garbage-collection10
rust-lang10
nix10
nixos10
linux10
standard-library10
nixpkgs10
crate10
compiler10
rust10
allocator10
rust-language10
plugin9
declare9
functional-programming9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nielsegberts/rust-monzo
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
nielsegberts/nixpkgs
May 2023 - Sep 2023
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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