Rick Boks is a software engineer based in Delft with eight years of hands-on experience and a strong academic focus in artificial intelligence from Leiden University. Currently completing a Master’s in AI (graduating July) he balances practical industry work at SPECTRAL Industries with prior teaching roles in Natural Computing and AI at Universiteit Leiden. His background spans from IT support to applied research-adjacent teaching, giving him a pragmatic approach to building robust software and translating academic ideas into reliable implementations. At SPECTRAL he contributes to production systems, bringing research-informed methods to real-world engineering challenges. Rick is particularly interested in roles that bridge AI research and software engineering, and his mix of tutoring experience and industry tenure suggests strong communication skills for cross-disciplinary teams. Based in the Netherlands, he’s ready to move from academia into impactful AI software roles after graduation.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universiteit Leiden
Contributions:2 PRs, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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Rick Boks - Software Engineer at SPECTRAL Industries