Niels Van Galen Last
Senior Data Science & Data Engineering Consultant
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNiels Van Galen is a Senior Data Science & Data Engineering Consultant with 17 years of experience blending computer science and mathematics into production-grade ML and data platforms. He leads cross-functional teams to industrialize models and build standardized, cloud-native infrastructures—most recently as technical lead for PostNL’s SageMaker-centered, cross-account AWS platform and CDK construct library now used across projects. Comfortable from feature engineering and hyperparameter tuning to CI/CD, monitoring and drift detection, he has a track record of shipping daily forecasting and fraud-detection systems and of mentoring junior engineers into enterprise practices. As a founder and former CDO/CTO he pairs hands-on implementation with product thinking, having moved systems to AWS at scale and delivered state-of-the-art deep learning for RNA sequence classification. Based in Amsterdam, he thrives on standardization, developer velocity and knowledge sharing—often surfacing engineering patterns and toolkits that accelerate entire organizations.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesBSc Artificial Intelligence, BSc Artificial Intelligence at University of AmsterdamM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Delft University of TechnologyM.S. / PhD Computational and Mathematical Engineering, M.S. / PhD Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University
English, Dutch
Github Skills (200)
postgresql10
revision-history10
javascript10
serverless-plugin10
papertrail10
sequelizejs10
sqlite10
mysql10
mariadb10
revision10
nodejs10
genetic9
dynamodb9
lambda9
parameter-tuning9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nielsgl/sequelize-paper-trail
Apr 2016 - Sep 2019
Sequelize plugin for tracking revision history of model instances.
Contributions:11 releases, 302 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years 5 months
sequelize-paper-trailinstancespapertrailsequelizejsmysql
nielsgl/serverless-boilerplate
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Serverless Boilerplate - Generic boilerplate for applications using the Serverless Framework
Contributions:7 releases, 227 commits, 38 PRs in 24 days
boilerplateserverlessaws-lambdagenericserverless-framework
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