Peter Verheijen
@peterverheijen
Fractional CTO and AI Engineering Leader with 8+ years of experience.
What I'm looking for
As a Fractional CTO and AI Engineering Leader, I bring over 8 years of experience in building machine learning platforms and leading engineering teams. My journey has been marked by significant achievements, including raising €200k for a B2B SaaS product and establishing MLOps functions that enhance product delivery. I specialize in scaling AI infrastructure, hiring early teams, and implementing best practices in MLOps.
In my current role as Engineering Manager at Promaton, I manage multiple engineering tracks and have successfully modernized our product serving infrastructure, significantly reducing tech debt and costs. My leadership extends to empowering product teams through self-service APIs, which has improved deployment speed and autonomy. I am passionate about fostering collaboration and growth within teams, ensuring alignment with strategic company goals.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Engineering Manager - Data & Machine Learning Platform
Promaton
Jan 2025 - Present (7 months)
Managed two engineering tracks: a central ML/Data platform team and 4 embedded MLOps engineers across product teams. Established a dedicated MLOps function and modernized product serving infrastructure, enabling multi-version support and reducing tech debt.
Engineering Lead - Machine Learning Platform
TMNL
Jun 2023 - Present (2 years 2 months)
Managed the MLOps team (4 engineers) by having 121's, discussing and assisting them with their personal growth plans and providing feedback for the growth reviews. Improved inter-and intrateam collaboration and effectiveness by organising alignment rituals (shared design sessions), team events, and project boards for better clarity and delivery.
MLOps/Machine Learning Engineer
Analytix Power
Mar 2022 - Present (3 years 5 months)
Worked on deploying machine learning models in productions following MLOps principles (>10), by furthering the development of our Model Training Framework (built with MLflow) and refactoring existing models and specifying the roadmap in terms of work to be done for productionizing. Lowered the time to (re)deploy models into production (by several months), by standardizing the development of machin
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Lely
Mar 2020 - Present (5 years 5 months)
Designed and Developed a Data & Machine Learning Platform, in collaboration with Databricks (Partnership), by managing the platform (functional and infrastructure) and onboarding teams, data pipelines and models. Lowered the operational costs of several production models (from >100k to <5k per year), by migrating these models from Azure Durable Functions to Databricks (Pandas UDFs).
Lead Machine Learning Engineer/Founder
Steeve.AI
Jul 2018 - Present (7 years 1 month)
Raised funds for the development of our SaaS company, by raising Angel and Seed funding (>200k), by conducting problems & solution interviews, writing an investment proposal and pitching our idea. Developed a SaaS offering for Fashion Retail Analytics, by doing two separate PoCs and developing an MVP, that involved loading data to our cloud DWH (AWS Redshift) and providing insights through our cus
Data Scientist/Freelance
Stockon
Feb 2018 - Present (7 years 6 months)
Provided the management team with updates on our Machine Learning efforts, by giving weekly presentations, where I presented the sales forecasts and the performance of the basket recommendation model. Improved our inventory management, by reducing the out-of-stocks (by 30%), through sales forecasting by analyzing consumer baskets in our Data Warehouse (BigQuery).
Machine Learning Engineer
SphereMall
Jan 2017 - Present (8 years 7 months)
Worked as a consultant for large Dutch clients such as Jumbo, Friesland Campina and Royal Ahrend, by completing client projects that involved developing an API (Django REST Framework) and a graph-based (NEO4j & Cypher) Recommender System.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Master of Science, Econometrics and Management Science
2015 - 2017
Grade: 7.5
Activities and societies: Specialized in Business Analytics and Quantitative Marketing.
Studied Econometrics and Management Science, specializing in Business Analytics and Quantitative Marketing. Gained expertise in statistical modeling, data analysis, and decision-making.
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Bachelor of Science, Econometrics and Operations Research
2012 - 2015
Grade: 7.0
Activities and societies: Focused on mathematical methods and statistical analysis.
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Econometrics and Operations Research. Developed a strong foundation in mathematical methods, statistical analysis, and optimization techniques.
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