Ruwan Lambrichts
Data Science Engineer
Londerzeel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolRuwan Lambrichts is a Data Science Engineer with 8 years of experience building machine learning solutions and production-grade data systems, currently applying his expertise at Colruyt Group after senior roles at ML6. He combines strong academic foundations from KU Leuven (MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems Engineering) with practical engineering experience, shipping resilient ML pipelines and production back-ends. His open-source contributions include security and maintainability improvements to the popular Python API framework Connexion, highlighting an attention to secure, spec-first API design. Ruwan’s background spans both technical delivery and stakeholder-facing roles—from capacity forecasting at Cisco to training and leadership roles in student organizations—demonstrating an ability to translate complex models into business impact. Based in Londerzeel, Belgium, he brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to data science engineering and a track record of improving long-term maintainability. An underrated strength is his cross-disciplinary fluency in finance, logistics and software engineering, enabling rapid alignment between models and operational constraints.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at KU LeuvenLatin - Mathematics, Latin - Mathematics at Sint-Jozefcollege TurnhoutBachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (15)
web-framework10
api10
python10
apidoc10
openapi10
flask10
flask-ask10
security10
oauth9
api-design9
restful-api9
pytest9
rest-api9
api-rest9
documentation8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
spec-first/connexion
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Connexion is a modern Python web framework that makes spec-first and api-first development easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 240 reviews, 15 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ruwan primarily contributed to the back-end of the `connexion` project, a Python web framework for API development. Their work included fixing bugs related to security handling and function argument sanitization, and adding support for multiple security schemes, improving the framework's robustness. They also refactored the codebase to use `pkgutil` instead of `pkg_resources` and updated tests, specifically those related to OAuth security, demonstrating a focus on maintainability and security.
redocpythonflaskapi-firstendpoint
Ruwann/connexion
Jul 2020 - Feb 2025
Swagger/OpenAPI First framework for Python on top of Flask with automatic endpoint validation & OAuth2 support
Contributions:3 reviews, 18 PRs, 167 pushes in 4 years 6 months
apiredocpythonvalidationflask
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