Ruben Vereecken
Data & AI Lead
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRuben Vereecken is a Data & AI leader and hands-on technologist with 12 years of experience building product-led engineering teams and shipping high-impact AI systems. Currently leading Data & AI at Glass Health, he designed a clinical decision support agent on top of a 40M-article RAG corpus, blending deep research instincts from his PhD in AI with pragmatic startup delivery. He has a track record as founder, fractional CTO, and interim CTO—scaling teams from zero to product-market traction and prioritising lean, incremental value. An active open-source contributor, Ruben has improved infrastructure and protocol work across projects from tldr-pages to Pokémon GO protobufs and contributed localization and gamification work to CodeCombat. Based in London, he runs CTO Lunches to connect engineering leaders and advises early-stage ventures while still diving into code and reverse engineering problems himself. Outside work he balances intense focus with endurance—he’s an ex-PhD who runs beer marathons.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Sciences, General at University of AntwerpDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Imperial College LondonMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dutch, English, German, French
Stackoverflow
541reputation
36kreached
12answers
5questions
Github Skills (33)
structures10
github-ci10
protocol-buffers10
bash10
data-structure10
cicd10
enums10
localization10
automated-build10
data-structures10
githubaction-workflow10
javascript9
git9
internationalization9
data-modeling9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
tldr-pages/tldr
Mar 2014 - Mar 2016
📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:147 commits, 106 PRs, 86 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ruben primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes for the tldr-pages repository. Their contributions involved creating a style file for markdownlint, adding a script for linting changed files, and modifying the build scripts. They also made changes to the `build-index.js` file, a core component used for generating the index for the tldr pages. These changes collectively streamline the building and deploying of the project's assets.
subcommandsconsolelinuxbashmanpages
codecombat/codecombat
Mar 2014 - Aug 2014
Game for learning how to code.
Role in this project:Localization Specialist
Localization SpecialistContributions:222 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ruben primarily contributed to the localization efforts of the CodeCombat project. Their work involved identifying and correcting grammatical and linguistic errors in Dutch (Nederlands) translations. They also ensured the Dutch translations were accurate and consistent with the English source, further demonstrating their focus on improving the quality of the project's internationalization.
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