Koen Dercksen
AI engineer & full-stack developer
AI engineer and full-stack developer with a background in academic research and practical implementation. Specialized in natural language processing, information retrieval, and building production-ready applications. I bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world business solutions, focusing on practical implementations that deliver measurable value.
Featured projects
AI brand visibility platform
2026 - PresentBuilt a multi-tenant SaaS platform that tracks how AI assistants mention and recommend brands across all major LLM providers - visibility tracking for the age of AI answers.
- Scheduled prompt runs across 10+ AI engines with mention, ranking, competitor and citation analysis
- AI crawler and AI-referral analytics via a custom tracking script and CDN log ingestion
- Insights engine turning raw model output into scored, actionable recommendations
- Full agency multi-tenancy with subscription billing and an OAuth-secured MCP server
Lead enrichment & scoring platform
2026Built a sales-lead enrichment platform for an investment firm that qualifies companies by combining public registry data, procurement records, news signals and LLM web research into a single lead score.
- Pluggable connector pipeline over public data sources (business registries, insolvency records, procurement data, news)
- Background job queue that enriches and scores leads automatically
- LLM-powered web evaluation producing cited sales qualification briefs
- Review workflow and CRM export for the sales team
Privacy-first lease assessment automation
2026Automated the first assessment of car-lease applications for a lease provider, with a GDPR privacy-by-design architecture in which LLMs never process identifiable customer data.
- Pseudonymization vault with access-logged re-identification and an automated PII leak-scan gate
- Deterministic, auditable decision tree kept separate from LLM extraction
- SharePoint dossier integration and credit & business registry lookups
- Admin-editable policy engine with a full change audit trail
Multi-agent environment
2025Built a custom chat environment with multiple LLM agents for a financial sector client, including a custom API backend.
- Developed custom LLM API layer in Python enabling observability and smart caching
- Configured and deployed multi-agent chat environment
- Integrated with client's existing infrastructure
Client monitoring & news classification system
2025Created an automated monitoring tool for a financial sector client that scrapes news nightly and detects relevant events regarding their client base.
- Automated nightly news scraping across multiple sources
- Built intelligent classification system for detecting insolvencies and noteworthy news
- Reduced manual monitoring time significantly
- Enabled early detection of client-related risks
Email generation & automation pipelines
2025Implemented multiple email generation and automation workflows for various clients using modern automation tools and LLMs.
- Created automated email workflows integrated with CRM systems
- Implemented LLM-powered personalized email generation
- Built scalable automation pipelines for marketing and customer communication
SimpleRad
2023Developed a web-based viewer for simplified radiology reports as part of PhD research, making medical text more accessible to patients.
- Implemented automated medical text summarization
- Built entity annotation and recognition system
- Created entity description search functionality
- Designed patient-friendly interface for complex medical information
Recent experience
Senior Software Engineer
Plain Medical • Netherlands
Building AI-assisted radiology software for oncology: deep learning-based CT lesion segmentation, LLM-driven understanding of radiology reports, and privacy-first on-premise AI infrastructure.
Freelance AI engineer & full-stack developer
avirai • Netherlands
Providing practical AI solutions and full-stack development services for various clients, ranging from complete custom software systems to strategic planning and prototyping.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
World Brain Scholar • Amsterdam / Paris (Remote)
Designed, built, and deployed into production Eliza, an AI-powered peer review platform aimed at academic publishers.
Skills
AI & machine learning
Full-stack development
DevOps & infrastructure
Databases & ORMs
Integration & automation
Education
PhD in Computer Science
2019 - PresentRadboud University • Nijmegen, Netherlands
Specializing in natural language processing and information retrieval for medical text simplification
MSc in Data Science
2017 - 2019Radboud University • Nijmegen, Netherlands