Willem Ligtenberg
Senior Product Owner Data Science And AI
North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWillem Ligtenberg is a Senior Product Owner for Data Science and AI with 14 years of experience applying statistical modelling, machine learning and deep learning to real-world problems, currently shaping responsible (gen)AI adoption and infrastructure at CZ. Trained as a biomedical engineer with advanced bioinformatics study and an unfinished PhD in network theory, he has a strong track record in extracting biology-driven insight—having developed ML methods to infer gene regulatory networks from perturbation data. Pragmatic and delivery-focused, he balances cutting-edge AI with practical alternatives when non-data-science solutions are preferable, and has optimized algorithms for multi-core and GPU environments. As a former founder and consultant he brings both product stewardship and hands-on technical depth across healthcare and pharma analytics. An experienced instructor in data carpentry, he also prioritizes reproducible, auditable pipelines for safe AI in regulated domains.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Paulus LyceumData carpentry instructor, Data carpentry instructor at Software CarpentryBlokkendoosPattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition at NBICMSc Biomedical Engineering, MSc Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven University of TechnologyM.Sc. Bio-informatics, M.Sc. Bio-informatics at University of Glasgow
English, Dutch
Github Skills (196)
python10
shinyproxy10
cookbook10
r-package10
voice-control10
recipe10
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markdown9
dovecot9
django9
mqtt9
home-automation9
snakemake9
smtp-server9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wligtenberg/coin-flip-skill
Sep 2017 - Apr 2019
Skill for mycroft to flip a virtual coin
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
mycroftflipcryptocurrencybitcoincoin
openanalytics/ROpenCL
Aug 2011 - Dec 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 3 years 4 months
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