Robin Smits
Freelance Data Scientist AI Engineer
Culemborg, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRobin Smits is a senior freelance Data Scientist and AI Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on software and ML experience, helping EU organizations turn business needs into production-ready AI systems. He combines a software developer background (.NET/Python) with deep expertise in AI solution design, end-to-end implementation, and cloud productionization on Azure and Google Cloud. Robin specializes in GenAI/LLMs (RAG, agents), NLP, document understanding, and workflow automation, often moving PoCs into maintainable, monitored services with CI/CD and governance baked in. He excels at aligning business stakeholders and engineering teams around pragmatic trade-offs and measurable outcomes across sectors like finance, healthcare, and logistics. A lifelong coder who started on a Commodore C64, he pairs experimental applied research and structured evaluations with operational rigor to ensure solutions remain reliable under real usage.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor, Information and Communication Technology at HBO-ICT / Hogeschool NOVIMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Dutch, English, Dutch, English
Github Skills (33)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RobinSmits/FakeNews-Generator-And-Detector
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:32 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
RobinSmits/Dutch-NLP-Experiments
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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