Rik Van Der Kooij is a Senior Solution Engineer based in Amsterdam with 13 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and enterprise AI solutions. He progressed from web developer to software engineer at Jalt—where he designed a PowerPoint-reporting Facebook ads management app using Python/Django and PostgreSQL—to forward-deployed and senior solution engineering roles at C3 AI. Rik combines practical backend expertise and data-focused application design with experience deploying models and solutions for enterprise customers. Trained in Computer Science (BSc) and High Performance Distributed Computing (MSc), he brings a strong academic grounding to pragmatic product delivery. Colleagues describe him as a versatile engineer who bridges developer-facing implementation and customer-facing solution architecture.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc in Computer Science, High Performance Distributed Computing, MSc in Computer Science, High Performance Distributed Computing at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Universiteit van Amsterdam
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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Rik Van Der Kooij - Senior Solution Engineer at C3 AI