Niels Van Galen Last
Senior Data Science Data Engineering Consultant
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNiels Van Galen is a senior data science and data engineering consultant with 16 years of experience, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He blends statistical modeling, machine learning, and big data analytics with full-stack data engineering to deliver end-to-end solutions—from data pre-processing and feature engineering to model deployment, CI/CD, and cloud-native infrastructure. In his current role at Future Facts, he leads PostNL’s AI Platform, architecting cross-account AWS infrastructure around SageMaker Studio for DS/DE/MLOps, and has built a CDK-based toolkit that standardizes stacks and pipelines across projects. He has industrialized large ML models such as daily parcel volume forecasting per depot and mentors junior to mid-level engineers to write robust, scalable code and workflows in enterprise environments. An entrepreneur and educator, he founded Ronix LLC and previously served as CTO at multiple ventures, with an academic foundation including MS/PhD in Computational and Mathematical Engineering from Stanford and degrees in AI and computer science from Delft and the University of Amsterdam.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Hogeschool van AmsterdamBSc, Artificial Intelligence, BSc, Artificial Intelligence at University of AmsterdamTU DelftM.S. / PhD Computational and Mathematical Engineering, M.S. / PhD Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University
English, Dutch
Github Skills (200)
postgresql10
revision-history10
javascript10
serverless-plugin10
papertrail10
sequelizejs10
sqlite10
mysql10
mariadb10
revision10
nodejs10
genetic9
dynamodb9
lambda9
parameter-tuning9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nielsgl/sequelize-paper-trail
Apr 2016 - Sep 2019
Sequelize plugin for tracking revision history of model instances.
Contributions:11 releases, 302 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years 5 months
sequelize-paper-trailinstancespapertrailsequelizejsmysql
nielsgl/serverless-boilerplate
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Serverless Boilerplate - Generic boilerplate for applications using the Serverless Framework
Contributions:7 releases, 227 commits, 38 PRs in 24 days
boilerplateserverlessaws-lambdagenericserverless-framework
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