Summary
Pieter Tolsma is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience and a final-year BSc/MSc background from TU Delft, now working at Booking.com. He blends strong systems programming in C++ and Java with Python-driven computer vision and cloud-native deployments, having built a greenfield wildfire-mapping pipeline from drone footage and productionized serverless microservices on Google Cloud Run. His research on combining vision transformers with multi-view stereo earned a 9/10 thesis, signaling deep expertise in depth prediction for challenging materials like transparent and specular objects. Pieter’s career spans automotive and robotics-adjacent projects, scholarship work at ASML, and contributions to robust embedded software for a solar-racing OBC that performed flawlessly in competition. Comfortable moving between research and production, he favors resilient, fault-tolerant systems and has a track record of shipping end-to-end solutions from prototype to deployment. Based in Rotterdam, he pairs academic rigor with practical engineering to tackle real-world perception and mapping problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Masters Degree Artificial Intelligence, Masters Degree Artificial Intelligence at Delft University of Technology
English, Dutch, German