Summary
Willem Bressers is a Senior Data Scientist with 11 years of experience who has been pioneering AI adoption in the Netherlands since 2015, guiding organizations from PoC to production-grade MLOps. He combines a strong software engineering background with deep expertise in computer vision, recommender systems, and multi-channel customer personalization, currently delivering real-time NBA/NBO models in production on Databricks and AWS. Willem has repeatedly built end-to-end pipelines—training, deployment, and monitoring—and links model outputs to business metrics like conversion to continuously improve impact. He founded an open-source PHP ML library early in his career and has a broad hands-on history across rail inspection, energy personalization, and advertising optimization, showing a talent for turning messy, high-volume data into actionable products. Based in Veldhoven, he pairs formal AI and MLOps training with a pragmatic, product-first approach that helps organizations take their first meaningful steps with AI.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps), Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps) at Coursera
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) datacommunications and automation, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) datacommunications and automation at Avans University of Applied Sciences
Deep Reinforcement Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning at Udacity
Master of Science (MSc) information studies, Master of Science (MSc) information studies at University of Amsterdam
Dutch, English