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👋 Hello! I'm Zen, a software engineer working on implementing AI & ML in impactful ways. Next to that I am also an Azure cloud expert. On this site, you can have a look at what I've learned and done over the years. Below you can check out my professional timeline: hover over the different items to learn more!

Professional Timeline

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Increased self-help for users with any kind of problem on GitHub as part of the Digital Customer Success team.

• Developed Copilot in GitHub Support, a GPT-4 based large language model assistant automatically deflecting hundreds of support tickets each week.
• Automating Virtual Support with ML & AI
• Implementing Intelligent Search with Natural Language Processing
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2024 GitHub Software Engineer III
Increased self-help for users with any kind of problem on GitHub as part of the Digital Customer Success team.

• Developed Copilot in GitHub Support, a GPT-4 based large language model assistant automatically deflecting hundreds of support tickets each week.
• Automating Virtual Support with ML & AI
• Implementing Intelligent Search with Natural Language Processing
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2023 GitHub Software Engineer II
• Developed, delivered and maintained cloud-native Kubernetes environments • Azure Engineering with a focus on DevOps for De Nederlandsche Bank
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2022 Beyond Blue Azure DevOps Engineer
Connect employees through internal learning opportunities on Microsoft Teams.

SkillScape helps employees gain new skills, enrich their network, and get work done faster.
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2022 SkillScape Co-founder
• Wrote TypeScript & Python code to advance enterprise customers towards cloud-native solutions on Azure • Collaborated with 50+ customers across software development, DevOps and cloud architecture, including: - Financial Sector (ABN Amro, Rabobank, Handelsbanken) - Government (Ministry of Defense, municipalities) - Healthcare (Leiden University Medical Center) - Education (Eramus University) - Retail (Heineken) - Manufacturing (Philips, ASML) - Transport (ProRail, Maersk) - IT (Atos)
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2021 Microsoft Customer Engineer
Developed and delivered a new version of the Python based pseudoword generator Wuggy.
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2020 Tilburg University AI Research Assistant
Thesis MLOps for Chatbots - Applying context free grammar to test the performance of intent recognition systems
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2020 Tilburg University - BSc (Cum laude) Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence
• Lead software engineer on the Brainy project: a Microsoft Teams chatbot

• Cooperated with international enterprises to develop proofs of concept Azure solutions
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2019 Microsoft Cloud Solutions Architect Intern
• Provided a fully automated test suite written in JavaScript (Cypress) • Performed general QA testing for a web-based Community platform
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2018 CMNTY Junior Software Tester