Nick Van den Broeck, Software Engineer +32471832537, vandenbroeck@cs-vdb.com L I N K S GitHub P R O F I L E Nick Van den Broeck has an entrepreneurial mind and a `figure it out` attitude. He has four years of industry experience in many fields and technologies, ranging from Haskell and Python to deep learning. His superpower is learning. E M P L OY M E N T H I S TO RY 2020 — Present AI engineer, Relu Leuven, Belgium • Sped up internal processes, like data cleaning (hours to 30min-) and setting up pipelines (days to hours) • Automated much of the data workflow 2020 — 2020 Head of Engineering, TontineTrust Remote • Developed the core algorithm of TontineTrust, allowing such properties as a guarantee to never go bankrupt and significantly reducing the variability of the pension payouts • Successfully built a team of four engineers 2019 — 2019 Software developer, Tweag I/O Remote Helped design and implement nix-flakes, a new version of Nix as a package manager and CLI (in C++) 2018 — 2018 Haskell engineer, LumiGuide Nijmegen, the Netherlands • Replaced the company's core software through deep learning, saving five figures per project • Data modeling in Python (TensorFlow) using Haskell (Servant & Miso) in production 2014 — 2016 Research intern, CERN, ULeiden, ULeuven Computational physics internships at CERN, ULeiden and ULeuven, co-authoring two papers E D U C AT I O N 2016 — 2017 MSc in Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Institute Waterloo, Canada Lowest admission rate physics graduate program in the world. 30'000+ USD scholarship. Joint program with the University of Waterloo. Project: Implement Monte Carlo in Julia. 2013 — 2016 BSc in Physics, University of Leuven Leuven, Belgium Minor in computer science, summa cum laude, first of the class. 2013 — 2016 BSc in Mathematics, University of Leuven Leuven, Belgium Summa cum laude, first of the class AWA R D S & H O N O R S Public speaking at Google Zurich, ULeuven and others Gave lectures and taught classes on topics ranging from testing in software to scientific research. High school olympiads - International Physics Olympiad bronze medal, top 10 from Belgium in 25 years - Vlaamse Fysica Olympiade winner, out of 3'000 - Vlaamse Chemie Olympiade laureat, top 16 out of 3'000 - Vlaamse Wiskunde Olympiade 3x laureat, top 75 out of 11'000 O P E N S O U R C E WO R K Intray Haskell tool with CLI and web interface to collect thoughts and ideas. Cursor Cursor library in Haskell which allows Show instances. Validity Library to ease and speed up writing tests and safe code (e.g. smart constructors). L A N G UAG E S Dutch; Flemish Native speaker English Native speaker Spanish B1 R E F E R E N C E S References available upon request