Veysel Kocaman
CTO at yDataLabs
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolVeysel Kocaman is a healthcare AI leader, researcher and CTO with nine years of focused industry experience and a PhD in Computer Science from Leiden University. He has built and scaled data science organizations—recruiting and leading teams of 40–70+—and personally contributed to thousands of production ML assets, including the flagship Healthcare NLP product that drives revenue at John Snow Labs. A hands-on engineer and founder (yDataLabs), he bridges advanced NLP/LLM research, Spark NLP tooling and MLOps to deliver enterprise-grade solutions for pharma, finance and legal customers. He also teaches and consults, having lectured in computer science and run workshops that translate state-of-the-art models into real-world deployments. Notably, his background spans operations research and applied deep learning across defense, logistics and healthcare, giving him a rare mix of theoretical rigor and pragmatic systems experience.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Leiden UniversityMaster’s Degree Operations Research, Master’s Degree Operations Research at Penn State University
Github Skills (47)
language-detection10
transformers10
spark-ml10
apache-spark10
machine-translation10
spark10
named-entity-recognition10
entity-extraction10
snow10
python10
databricks10
machine-learning10
pyspark10
onnx10
apache10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vkocaman/Python
Feb 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
vkocaman/Udemy_NLP
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 commit, 1 branch in 1 day
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