Rik Nauta
Software Engineer at Sourcegraph
Malmo, Sweden
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Top SchoolRik Nauta is a curiosity-driven software engineer with 11 years of experience building NLP and ML-powered products, now helping enterprises adopt AI-driven developer workflows at Sourcegraph. A founder and former CEO who shipped legal AI at Donna after scaling large-scale text analytics at Zook AI, he blends product instinct with hands-on engineering across messy data pipelines and model-driven features. Comfortable digging through terabytes to verify assumptions, Rik favors iterative redesigns—deleting and rebuilding to reach simpler, more robust solutions—and delights in Rust and strong types. Based in Malmö, he bridges research, startups, and enterprise product teams, turning connected ideas into practical systems that accelerate developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Msc. Engineering Physics Computer Science, Msc. Engineering Physics Computer Science at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Dutch, English, German, Swedish
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
donna-legal/donna-app-releases
Nov 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:29 releases, 1 branch, 33 tags in 8 months
RXminuS/cody
Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
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Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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