Renaat De Ruddere

ML/AI Engineer

Ypres, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

Experience

  • Data & AI engineer at House of HR
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

  • AI Engineer at Qargo TMS
    Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Platform Scientist at Summ.link
    Feb 2023 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr

    Summ.Link is a 1-year-old start-up that uses Machine Learning to innovate the world of HR. I use NLP and ML to accelerate hiring and save time for recruiters. - Researched, implemented and deployed (API) several models (E.g. LLMs) related to resume / job feature extraction and the matching of those. - Developed CI/CD pipelines for model testing and deployment while managing AKS (Azure). - Created a Django backend to interface with the frontend, handling resume upload, triggering the async computation of features and predictions to serve suggested jobs for a given uploaded resume.

  • Defined.ai (6 yrs 5 mos)
    • Lead Data Scientist
      Sep 2022 - Feb 2023 · 6 mos

      Defined AI (formerly DefinedCrowd) is an 8-year-old start-up that combines Crowd-as-a-Service and Machine Learning to accelerate enterprise data training and modelling. I use data science and machine learning to improve annotation quality and speed or reduce cost on the online data labeling platform Neevo. - Supervised the transition to a machine learning based voice activity detector, eliminating the need for Solution Developers to manually set parameters.

    • Senior Data Scientist
      Mar 2022 - Sep 2022 · 7 mos

      Advocate a data-driven culture by including Data Science in early product development and supporting Data Scientists in intra-squad communication. - Researched and implemented (Python library) the automated detection of dishonest contributors without the need for test questions for speech collection and transcription workflows, reducing setup time from 3 weeks to 2 days. - Researched and implemented background noise detection in speech collection workflows (Python library + Nuclio API deployed in Kubernetes), reducing the need for human labeling by 71%.

    • Data Scientist
      Aug 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Predicted human effort & cost needed to collect a dataset (e.g. to improve speech to text), eliminating the risk of underselling a workflow.

  • Intern consultant at Vandelanotte
    Oct 2015 - Jan 2016 · 4 mos