Wiljan Cools
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolWiljan Cools is a Belgian data scientist and entrepreneur with four years of hands-on experience building and scaling AI-driven products and data platforms. He co-founded NannyML to monitor ML performance in production and has led data observability and end-to-end ML workstreams across startups and enterprise settings, from architecting AWS-based automated prediction pipelines to shipping production recommender and churn models. Equally comfortable in code and boardroom, he translates complex models into clear business decisions and has a track record of mentoring teams, hiring, and leading product strategy. Wiljan combines pragmatic engineering (four years of Python, custom tooling and SageMaker/S3/Step Functions automation) with a competitive drive evidenced by winning a major crop-classification challenge by rethinking the problem. He’s curious about real-time perception systems too—having prototyped radar-based object detection for autonomous sailing—bringing a blend of applied research and product focus to data problems.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Applied Economic Sciences: Business Engineering, Master of Science in Applied Economic Sciences: Business Engineering at University of AntwerpSummer Exchange Program, Summer Exchange Program at Georgetown UniversityScience & Mathematics, Science & Mathematics at Klein Seminarie HoogstratenScale-up Masterclass Business/Commerce General, Scale-up Masterclass Business/Commerce General at Vlerick Business School
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (18)
classification10
alerts10
regression10
silent10
tabular10
jupyter-notebook10
visualization9
monitoring9
python9
machine-learning9
performance-monitoring9
drift9
performance-estimation9
data-analysis8
deep-learning8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
NannyML/examples
Nov 2022 - Sep 2023
A set of examples illustrating some possible use cases for NannyML
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
NannyML/nannyml
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
nannyml: post-deployment data science in python
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 months
pythonjupyter-notebookmodel-monitoringdriftmonitoring
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