Wiljan Cools

Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium

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Wiljan 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 Antwerp

Summer Exchange Program, Summer Exchange Program at Georgetown University

Science & Mathematics, Science & Mathematics at Klein Seminarie Hoogstraten

Scale-up Masterclass Business/Commerce General, Scale-up Masterclass Business/Commerce General at Vlerick Business School

Dutch, English, French

Github Skills (12)

jupyter-notebook10

visualization10

performance-monitoring10

data-science9

data-analysis9

performance-estimation9

python9

machine-learning9

mlops9

deep-learning9

monitoring9

ml8

Programming languages (2)

Jupyter NotebookPython

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

data-sciencepythonmachine-learningmlmlops

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