Youri Bontekoe
AI Engineer at Erasmus MC
Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolYouri Bontekoe is a Machine Learning Engineer with 12 years of software experience, currently building AI solutions at Team Rockstars IT after pioneering GenAI systems at Erasmus MC. He built production-grade medical AI—combining self-hosted ASR with Azure LLMs—to automate clinician reporting at scale while cutting ASR costs by 70x and instituting rigorous hallucination detection and evaluation pipelines. Equally comfortable in back-end and full-stack roles, he contributes to notable open-source bioinformatics projects (Galaxy, vg) improving RNA visualization, data tooling and genome graph stability. His background in creative early projects and formal training in software engineering drives a practical, product-minded approach to ML, from data lakes and MLOps to retrieval-augmented generation for patient dossiers. Based in Dordrecht, Netherlands, he pairs hands-on engineering with a knack for making complex, high-stakes systems auditable and clinically reliable.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Avans University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (33)
tooling10
javascript10
c-language10
genome10
jquery10
r10
user-manual10
graph10
ggraph10
trainings10
html10
bioinformatics10
rna-seq10
genomics10
d3js10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/tools-iuc
Mar 2015 - Jan 2018
Tool Shed repositories maintained by the Intergalactic Utilities Commission
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:271 commits, 107 PRs, 75 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Youri primarily focused on improving the DEXSeq tool within the repository. Their contributions involved modifying the R script to optimize data handling and output, including changes to column indexing for join operations. They also added and updated documentation for the RNA-STAR and featureCounts tools, with particular attention to memory requirements. Further, they attempted to resolve conflicts within the `extract_genomic_dna` utility script.
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vgteam/vg
Sep 2016 - Oct 2021
tools for working with genome variation graphs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 11 comments in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Youri primarily focused on improving the codebase's stability and functionality. They addressed a hanging behavior in the `vg construct` tool, likely resolving a critical bug. Furthermore, they made several changes to the `src/utility.hpp` and `src/caller.cpp` files, adding missing includes and refactoring code, indicating an effort to improve the project's maintainability, compatibility, and efficiency. They were involved in changes to the source of the project and fixed an issue in the build pipeline.
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