San Francisco Bay Area
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.
Helping companies turn AI into ROI. Solutions include: - multi-step AI workflows - ultra low latency chatbots - on prem RAG - browser agents - zero-hallucination solutions
Query Vary was one of the first LLM observability tools on the market
• 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
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)