Thijs 👨‍💻

Hey, welcome! I’m Thijs, an artificial intelligence and software geek based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Back in 2010, I co-founded a company which would turn into Label305, a digital product consultancy. We help entrepreneurs and enterprises realize completely new digital products. That could mean: diving in and designing a robust application architecture; implementing a companion mobile application; scaling up your backend infrastructure; or helping out and start improving your internal development process.

Ever since its inception, I'm the product lead for our internally developed SaaS product: Keeping, a beautiful time tracker for the Dutch market.

In 2017 I graduated cum laude from the UvA with a MSc in Artificial Intelligence. I'm very interested in everything related to Natural Language Processing, and AI in general. Going forward I will work to incorporate AI into the products we create at Label305.

Digital Product Portfolio

• Keeping, besides product management, I also architected and implemented the majority of the Laravel backend code for this super easy time-tracker;
• Fairlingo, I made large contributions to the Laravel backend of this professional translation service, which is inspired by the sharing economy;
• myPowerRouter, I built the iOS app for the Nedap PowerRouter, the Dutch competitor to the Tesla Powerwall;
• Clickin, I architected and developed both the Laravel backend, as well as the iOS app for this social platform, which you can use to go do something fun with strangers;
• Starry, together with my classmate in high school (2009) I developed this iOS app that puts the universe in your pocket.

Papers

• Improving Word Embedding Compositionality using Lexicographic Definitions (2018), was presented at WWW '18 in Lyon, France.
• Improving the Compositionality of Word Embeddings (2017), MSc Thesis
• Interactive Neural Translation Assistance for Human Translators (2016)
• Virtualization and Containerization of Application Infrastructure: A Comparison (2014)

Links and contact

E-mail: thijs [at] thijs [dot] ai
PGP: A524 4DB0 5EA2 0506 9AF2 168D B386 DBFA 3819 6A57

GitHub   CV