David Blom
Summary
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RockstarDavid Blom is a Team Lead for AI in Inspection at Shell with 16 years of experience applying computer vision and machine learning to industrial inspection problems across refineries, offshore platforms, furnaces, subsea imaging and corrosion detection. He leads a team of specialists turning research-grade methods—object detection, semantic segmentation and 3D scene understanding—into production systems that improve inspection efficiency and severity classification. With a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from TU Delft and a background in high-performance scientific software, he blends rigorous research instincts with pragmatic engineering, including GPU-accelerated signal processing and embedded C++ systems. He has a track record of end-to-end delivery from prototype to deployed integrity recognition pipelines and has contributed backend and DevOps improvements to an algorithmic trading backtester, demonstrating cross-domain fluency. Based in Utrecht, David is comfortable steering both technical strategy and hands-on refactoring to make complex computer vision systems robust in demanding industrial environments.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
backtesting10
back-end-development10
python10
trading10
algorithmic-trading10
backtest10
trading-systems10
crypto9
cryptocurrency9
websocket9
rust5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nautechsystems/nautilus_trader
Jan 2023 - Mar 2026
Production-grade Rust-native trading engine with deterministic event-driven architecture
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 136 PRs, 125 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to bug fixes and refactoring within the backtesting and trading platform components. Their work involved addressing issues in backtest configurations, fixing typos, and resetting specific components of the platform. Additionally, the user added support for Bybit spot and option trade websocket schemas, enhancing the platform's connectivity with crypto exchanges. Furthermore, the user also worked on refactoring the dYdX execution client, fixing potential issues and adding missing support.
event-driven-architecturerusttradingalgorithmic-trading-enginetrading-platform
davidsblom/deal-fsi
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:155 commits, 78 PRs, 165 pushes in 11 months
fluid-structure-interactioninteractiondealfluidlinear-elasticity
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