About Ruben
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Experience
- LaavaAI Platform Lead & EngineerJune 2024 - Today (2 years)Utrecht, Netherlands• • Lead the AI platform serving multiple whitelabel energy brands in the Dutch market — multi-tenant RAG with strict tenant isolation, per-tenant knowledge bases, and role-scoped access across chat, ticket, and voice agents.• • Ship production voice and chat agents on LangGraph with runtime validation at every LLM trust boundary (Zod schemas, structured outputs, deterministic verification nodes) and guardrails against cross-tenant data leakage.• • Profile span-level Langfuse traces to drive down latency and cost across the ASR, intent, retrieval, LLM, and TTS pipeline; design intent-based routing to skip expensive LLM calls when a deterministic fast path suffices.• • Operate the platform end-to-end: pgvector-backed RAG on PostgreSQL with BullMQ/Redis ingestion workers, Langfuse + Sentry observability, and self-managed Kubernetes with GitOps (ArgoCD, Traefik).
- Incubit (Venture Studio)Co-FounderJanuary 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)Utrecht, Netherlands• • Co-founded a consultancy delivering MVPs and scalable cloud architectures for early-stage startups.• • Designed cost-effective, production-ready systems built for rapid iteration and growth.• • Led technical architecture decisions across cloud infrastructure, backend services, and CI/CD pipelines.
- MRIguidanceArtificial Intelligence InternSeptember 2025 - January 2026 (4 months)Utrecht, Netherlands• • Developed BoneBase, a similarity search system for spine MRI scans using self-supervised Vision Transformers with masked autoencoding.• • Built and deployed a full-stack application with Next.js and FastAPI, backed by PostgreSQL with pgvector for vector-based retrieval.• • Trained models on unlabeled medical imaging data, applying self-supervised learning techniques to improve scan matching accuracy.
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Education
- BSc ArtificialHogeschool Utrecht2024BSc Artificial
- Minor Big Data & DesignHogeschool Utrecht2023Minor Big Data & Design