- Lead applied AI engagements for venture-backed startups and enterprise innovation teams, translating ambiguous AI opportunities into shipped products.
- Established delivery playbooks covering discovery, experimentation, evaluation, and production handover for data & ML teams.
- Coach engineering leaders on responsible AI governance, incident response, and sustainable model operations.
Work
- Mar 2022 – PresentBoogaerts AIFounding Principal
- Jun 2019 – Feb 2022Foundry LabsHead of Applied AI
- Built cross-functional team delivering computer vision and NLP features to 6 SaaS products, increasing activation by 18%.
- Designed human-in-the-loop review workflows and monitoring dashboards that reduced model regressions by 40%.
- Introduced lightweight experiment tracking and evaluation harnesses adopted by 4 product squads.
- Sep 2016 – May 2019Atlas VenturesStaff Machine Learning Engineer
- Partnered with portfolio companies to deliver ML accelerators, from demand forecasting to anomaly detection.
- Created reusable feature engineering kits and CI pipelines that cut prototype-to-production time by 35%.
- Ran founder workshops on responsible AI adoption, covering data governance, evaluation, and rollout strategies.