Koen Dercksen
Senior Software Engineer at avirai
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolKoen Dercksen is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience who helps organizations cut through AI hype to deliver practical, production-ready solutions. Currently CTO of World Brain Scholar and leading AI product work at Plain Medical and avirai, he builds full-stack, scalable web applications that embed ML models for realtime decision support. His PhD work at Radboud focused on making medical text understandable to patients, giving him rare domain expertise at the intersection of NLP, healthcare, and user-facing systems. Comfortable owning the entire stack from architecture to demos, he combines research rigor with a product-minded drive to measure real business impact. Based in Nijmegen, he frequently bridges academic and commercial teams to move prototypes into maintainable systems. An educator at heart, his early tutoring and course assistance work still shapes his emphasis on clarity and usability in complex AI features.
12 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computing Science (Data Science), Master's degree, Computing Science (Data Science) at Radboud University
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (101)
python10
annotations10
datasets10
deep-learning10
label-studio10
javascript10
labeling10
statistics10
cli-application10
audio10
nlp10
jax10
data-labeling10
data-science10
semantic-segmentation10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
KDercksen/randompy
May 2014 - Mar 2020
random.org CLI application
Contributions:55 commits, 2 PRs, 46 pushes in 5 years 11 months
cli-application
KDercksen/qbot
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021
Tiny plugin based IRC bot
Contributions:5 PRs, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
irc-bot
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