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Koen Bonenkamp

Full stack AI engineer

About

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." – Albert Einstein

Agentic AI will deeply impact every industry and understanding how to leverage it effectively is crucial for staying competitive. I help organizations implement ánd understand AI.

Language models and AI agents, although very powerful, are still hard to implement reliably. I specialize in building robust, secure and consistent AI systems that deliver measurable value.

Services

AI engineering

AI engineering

Implement end-to-end and secure AI solutions, from model training and prototyping to production deployment.

Strategic advisory

Strategic advisory

Helping leadership teams to understand the impact of AI on their business and work towards a strategy and actionable roadmap.

AI assisted development

AI assisted development

Working with tech teams to effectively leverage AI assisted coding to increase velocity, security ánd maintainability.

Tech due diligence

Tech due diligence

Support investors in making fact-based investment decisions by analyzing the technology and product value chain of tech startups.

Skills

Full Stack AI development

Full Stack AI development

20+ years of AI and software development experience
2000 - Present
  • Comfortable working across the entire stack, from data engineering and model development to backend and frontend web development.
  • Implementing AI at the model, application and infrastructure level.
Team management

Team management

10 years of experience as a CTO
2016 - 2026
  • Defining the tech strategy and roadmap.
  • Deciding about architecture, technology stack and tools.
  • Leading teams of 5-30 engineers to deliver high-quality software & data science solutions.
  • Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and uphold engineering best practices.
Consulting

Consulting

Passionate about advicing c-level executives accross industries
2012 - Present
  • Got my first experience as a technology consultant at IBM.
  • Worked with stakeholders in very diverse industries ranging from biotech, aviation, healthcare, finance, retail to government.
  • I love to communicate ideas clearly without jargon and to stay away from vague buzzwords.
Certified Cloud Engineer

Certified Cloud Engineer

Associate Cloud Engineer GCP
Issued - July 2022
  • An Associate Cloud Engineer deploys and secures applications, services, and infrastructure, monitors operations of multiple projects, and maintains enterprise solutions to ensure that they meet target performance metrics.
  • This individual has experience working with public clouds or on-premises solutions.
  • They are able to perform common platform-based tasks to maintain and scale one or more deployed solutions that leverage Google-managed or self-managed services on Google Cloud.
  • 10+ years of experience with cloud platforms including GCP, AWS and Azure.

Technologies

Large language models

LLM training & fine-tuning

Open source local models

Langchain

ADK

MCP server development

GCP

Azure

AWS

Tensorflow

PyTorch

(AI) security

(GenAI) OWASP top 10

Python

Docker & Kubernetes

Next.js

Vue.js

Svelte

TypeScript

Deno, Node.js & Bun

MongoDB

MySQL

Redis

Education

Education

Master in Artificial Intelligence

University of Amsterdam
2011 - 2014

Major in machine learning, neural networks and computer vision. A significant part of the education involved developing AI models from scratch.

Contact

Email:[email protected]
Phone:+31 617 437 690