Robbe Sneyders
Office Of The CTO at Connexion
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolRobbe Sneyders is a Principal ML Engineer turned Office of the CTO at ML6 with nine years of experience building AI platforms for energy and energy-intensive industries. He combines hands-on machine learning engineering and delivery leadership—having progressed from ML Engineer to Head of Delivery and now shaping technical strategy for clients. An active open-source maintainer, he contributes to the popular Python API framework Connexion and has modernized Python code across projects like Apache Beam, helping port and clean up legacy Python 2 artifacts. Trained as a mechatronics and robotics engineer at KU Leuven with international coursework in operational research and spectral signatures, he brings a systems-minded approach to production ML. Known for pragmatic refactors and API-first thinking, he balances platform-level strategy with code-level craftsmanship to help organizations operationalize AI.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Mechanical Engineering Mechatronics & Robotics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Mechanical Engineering Mechatronics & Robotics at KU LeuvenAthens Course: Operational Research Engineering, Athens Course: Operational Research Engineering at Instituto Politécnico de LisboaAthens Course: Specral Signatures - From Foods to Fuels Engineering, Athens Course: Specral Signatures - From Foods to Fuels Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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Github Skills (24)
api-rest10
python10
refactor10
api10
rest10
rest-api10
refactoring10
apache-beam10
testing9
data-engineering9
openapi9
swagger7
aiohttp7
istio6
jupyter-notebook6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spec-first/connexion
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Connexion is a modern Python web framework that makes spec-first and api-first development easy.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 268 reviews, 95 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Robbe primarily contributed to improving the import order within various Python files. They refactored and updated the codebase, fixing import orders using isort. Furthermore, they updated the aiohttp openapi_secure.yaml file to match the OA3 spec and added upper limits for dependency versions. They also made code changes related to cleaning up Python 2 artifacts.
redocpythonflaskapi-firstendpoint
apache/beam
Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 commits, 46 PRs, 217 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Robbe's contributions focused on refactoring and porting Python code within the Apache Beam project. This involved updating several Python SDK modules, including those related to coders, utils, and internal functions, to be compatible with Python 3. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to tests and examples, ensuring that existing functionality worked as expected across different Python versions. These changes involved adapting code to utilize Python 3's features and deprecating or removing legacy Python 2 code.
golangpythonstreaming-databeambatch
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