Sybren Jansen
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - SN AI Lab at Springer Nature Group
Greater Groningen Area Netherlands
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Top SchoolSybren Jansen is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Springer Nature AI Lab with over nine years of hands-on experience rapidly prototyping and deploying AI solutions across NLP, computer vision, time series, and structured data. He excels at end-to-end applied ML—starting simple, then iteratively identifying the highest-impact improvements—and has production experience from NER and disambiguation to recommendation, summarization, and reinforcement learning. As founder and lead of Slimmer AI’s AI Fellowship, he scaled and coached a 15-engineer R&D team while setting the company’s research direction and industry-facing outputs. He pairs deep model knowledge with a pragmatic engineering bent, valuing optimized, high-performance code (author of the MPIRE multiprocessing library). Based in the Groningen area, he bridges academic rigor from an MSc in Artificial Intelligence with product-driven delivery that favors practical gains over novelty. A subtle but consistent strength is his ability to translate non-technical stakeholder needs into robust ML systems that measurably improve workflows.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Artificial Intelligence, MSc, Artificial Intelligence at University of GroningenVWO, Natuur & Techniek, VWO, Natuur & Techniek at Marne College
Dutch, English, fries
Github Skills (44)
mutex10
multiprocessing10
meter9
normalizing9
python8
discord8
console7
building-blocks7
tqdm7
progress-bar7
telegram7
keras7
creative-commons6
cli6
nim-language6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sybrenjansen/mpire
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
A Python package for easy multiprocessing, but faster than multiprocessing
Contributions:68 reviews, 1 commit, 70 PRs in 1 day
pythonmultiprocessingmutexfasterfaster-than
Slimmer-AI/mpire
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years
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