René Luijk

Lead Data Engineer

The Randstad, Netherlands

About

Passionate data engineer with a focus on AWS and knowledge sharing among a young energy company. Outside the realm of data, my interests extend to software development. Off-duty, you’ll find me pushing my limits in CrossFit and exploring the intricacies of the Serbo-Croatian language (bok svima! / здраво свима!).

Experience

  • ANWB (1 yr)
    • Lead Data Engineer
      Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    • Senior Data Engineer
      Jul 2025 - Mar 2026 · 9 mos

  • Technical Instructor at Databricks
    Jan 2025 - Jun 2025 · 6 mos

    Delivering instructor-led trainings on behalf of Databricks

  • Senior Data Engineer at RevoData
    Jun 2023 - Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    - Enable team of data engineers by anonymizing production data and making it available in a development environment (Databricks) - Enable customers to exercise their GDPR rights to be forgotten, and to view the data the company has on them (Snowflake) - Migrate SQL Server database to Databricks

  • Data Engineer at TAPP
    Feb 2021 - May 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Main responsibilities: - Backend development for both client-facing and internal web applications (Django, Flask, Cube, MySQL) - Develop cloud-based data pipelines (Airflow, Python, SQL, dbt, Docker, Snowflake) Other activities: - Member of the Information Security team, where we further develop internal procedures to maximize data security throughout the entire company - Create custom, general data ingestion solution for Point of Sale systems within horeca (Go) - Maintain data infrastructure (AWS) - Create API integrations with cash registers - CI/CD best practices (automated tests, Git, Jenkins, AWS)

  • Data Scientist / Engineer at DPG Media
    Aug 2018 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Maintaining and setting up new services to be used within the entire company: - Creating new ML pipelines for text analysis and user profiling based on article text and reads (Scala, Spark, Cassandra, APIs) - Lookalike modelling (Scala, Spark, Bash) for advertising purposes - Several ad hoc requests (mostly Scala, Spark)