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Koen Bonenkamp

Full stack AI engineer

About

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." – Albert Einstein

Agentic AI will deeply impact every industry and understanding how to leverage it effectively is crucial for staying competitive. I help organizations implement ánd understand AI.

Language models and AI agents, although very powerful, are still hard to implement reliably. I specialize in building robust, secure and consistent AI systems that deliver measurable value.

Services

AI engineering

AI engineering

Implement end-to-end and secure AI solutions, from model training and prototyping to production deployment.

Strategic advisory

Strategic advisory

Helping leadership teams to understand the impact of AI on their business and work towards a strategy and actionable roadmap.

Keynotes & training

Keynotes & training

Interactive keynotes and hands-on workshops to educate teams and leadership about AI technologies, trends, and best practices.

Tech due diligence

Tech due diligence

Support investors in making fact-based investment decisions by analyzing the technology and product value chain of tech startups.

Fractional CTO

Fractional CTO

Part-time tech leadership role overseeing the organization’s tech strategy, direction and operations.

Skills

Full Stack AI development

Full Stack AI development

20+ years of AI and software development experience
2000 - Present
  • Comfortable working across the entire stack, from data engineering and model development to backend and frontend web development.
  • Implementing AI at the model, application and infrastructure level.
Team management

Team management

10 years of experience as a CTO
2016 - 2026
  • Defining the tech strategy and roadmap.
  • Deciding about architecture, technology stack and tools.
  • Leading teams of 5-30 engineers to deliver high-quality software & data science solutions.
  • Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and uphold engineering best practices.
Consulting

Consulting

Passionate about advicing c-level executives accross industries
2012 - Present
  • Consulted many organizations (from biotech, aviation, finance, retail to government) on technology strategy, architecture, hiring and implementation plans.
  • It's my strength to explain technical concepts in a clear manner without use of buzzwords (AI has become a buzzword so it's crucial to distinguish actual business opportunities from mere hype).
Certified Cloud Engineer

Certified Cloud Engineer

Associate Cloud Engineer GCP
Issued - July 2022
  • An Associate Cloud Engineer deploys and secures applications, services, and infrastructure, monitors operations of multiple projects, and maintains enterprise solutions to ensure that they meet target performance metrics.
  • 10+ years of experience with cloud platforms including GCP, AWS and Azure.

Technologies

Large language models

LLM training & fine-tuning

Open source local models

Langchain

ADK

MCP server development

RAG pipelines

Computer use agents

N8N automation

GCP

Azure

AWS

Tensorflow

PyTorch

(AI) security

Prompt injection

(GenAI) OWASP top 10

Python

Docker & Kubernetes

Next.js

Vue.js

Svelte

TypeScript

Deno, Node.js & Bun

MongoDB

Postgres

Redis

Vector databases

Education

Education

Master in Artificial Intelligence

University of Amsterdam
2011 - 2014

Major in machine learning, neural networks and computer vision. A significant part of the education involved developing AI models from scratch.

Contact

Email:koen@bonenkamp.ai
Phone:+31 617 437 690