Ruurd Bijlsma
Software Engineer at Booking.com
Utrecht Area Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRuurd Bijlsma is a software engineer based in Utrecht with 10 years of hands-on experience and a recent Master's in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Groningen. He has progressed from internships at Quintor and Snakeware to applied AI engineering at Sopra Steria’s Pythoneers division—working on retrieval-augmented generation projects—and now engineers at Booking.com. Comfortable across Python-centric stacks and AI tooling, he combines research-informed thinking with practical production delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns prototype ideas into reliable services, and he maintains a personal website showcasing his projects and experiments.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at BogermanMaster's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at University of GroningenComputer Science, Computer Science at NHL Hogeschool
Github Skills (126)
python10
spotify10
javascript10
movie10
android-camera10
youtube10
location10
vlc10
maps10
music10
cli10
youtube-dl10
google10
vue10
camera2-api10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RuurdBijlsma/Camera
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Android camera app to get manual control over focus, shuttertime, iso and white balance
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
android-cameracamera2-apicameraandroid
RuurdBijlsma/random-streetview
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
Generates a random valid StreetView location in a given polygon.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 1 year 2 months
locationvalidpolygonstreetview
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