Dirk-Jan van Veen

CTO @ SF AI Labs | AI PhD

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Dirk Jan is an experienced AI professional with 10 years of experience working in top-tier research institutes & founding VC-backed startups. Dirk Jan holds a PhD in Multi-Agent Systems from ETH Zurich, producing highly cited publications. Looking for more impact he founded and scaled an ambitious, team-oriented AI startup. He received funding from YCombinator, the most prestigious early-stage investor in Silicon Valley. Now he works with companies — SMB and enterprises — to design, build, and commercialize innovative generative AI products, 0-to-1. His work integrates: – A rigorous mathematic, first-principle approach to AI strategy – Hands-on coding of production-level, customer-facing AI development – Experience bringing AI products to market in the US and internationally His mission is to empower innovators to bring ambitious ideas into the world.

Experience

  • Co-founder & CTO at SF AI Labs
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    Helping companies turn AI into ROI. Solutions include: - multi-step AI workflows - ultra low latency chatbots - on prem RAG - browser agents - zero-hallucination solutions

  • Co-founder & CEO at Query Vary
    Jan 2021 - Feb 2025 · 4 yrs 2 mos

    Query Vary was one of the first LLM observability tools on the market

  • PhD Researcher | Multi-Agent Systems at ETH Zürich
    Oct 2016 - Nov 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos

    • Thesis focus: Collective Decision-Making in Cognitive Agents. • Advanced understanding of Neural Networks, Agent-Based Models, Heuristic Search Algorithms, Statistical Analysis. • Technologies: Python, pandas, statsmodels, tensorflow, git, Linux, Docker, SQL

  • Research Associate | Geophysics at Schlumberger
    Mar 2016 - Aug 2016 · 6 mos

    Thesis title: ''Joint Surface Downhole Microseismic Event Location" Grade: 6/6 Supervisors: Prof. J.O.A. Robertson (ETH Zurich), dr. I. Vera Rodriguez (Slb), dr. A. Gendrin (Slb)

  • Intern | Software Engineering at Quad Geometrics
    Jul 2015 - Sep 2015 · 3 mos