StijnĀ Verdenius
Lead Deep Learning Research Engineer at WAIR - Retail Geeks
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolStijn Verdenius is a Lead Deep Learning Research Engineer based in Amsterdam with nine years of experience building and shipping ML-driven products for retail. He blends hands-on model and data work (PyTorch, synthetic data, visual search, time-series forecasting) with system design, MLOps and microservice architecture to move research into production. As a tech lead he creates technical vision, mentors teams, drives hiring, and balances stakeholder delivery with research-led improvements. His background in AI (MSc, University of Amsterdam) and prior Java backend experience gives him a rare cross-stack fluency from core algorithms to cloud-native deployment. Colleagues know him for pairing data-centric and model-centric approaches and for organizing the social glue that keeps engineering teams effective.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Propedeuse Architecture and Construction engineering, Propedeuse Architecture and Construction engineering at Eindhoven University of TechnologyPre-university education (VWO) Physics and Technology, Pre-university education (VWO) Physics and Technology at Vechtstede CollegeMaster of Science - MSc Artificial intelligence, Master of Science - MSc Artificial intelligence at University of Amsterdam
Dutch, English, German, French
Github Skills (33)
generative-adversarial-network8
iterative8
face8
recommendation-engine7
computer-vision6
science6
matrix-factorization6
pruning6
collaborative-filtering6
model-compression6
sensitivity6
recommender5
sat5
recommender-system5
deep-learning5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
StijnVerdenius/DeepFaceImageSynthesis
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Project considered the problem of GAN-generated photorealistic, personalised facial models, that transfers a person's (source) facial expression movements to another person's (target) face for video generation
Contributions:124 commits, 1 push, 5 issues in 4 months
pytorchmovementsdeep-learningpersoncomputer-vision
StijnVerdenius/Movies_To_Watch_App
Feb 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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