Jelle van Lieshout

Engineer passionate about technology and entrepreneurship.

Nationality: Dutch

Languages: Dutch (fluent), English (fluent), Swedish (B2)

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About

MSc student in Human Computer Interaction & Design at KTH (EIT Digital) with a BSc in Computer Science from TU Delft. I combine strong technical skills with an entrepreneurial drive — I have co-founded and scaled multiple products, from an IoT platform serving 2500+ households to a healthcare SaaS used by fertility clinics across Europe. Currently, I am building scalable infrastructure for human/AI collaborative hackathons at 2Hero as part of my thesis work. I take ownership of what I work on, whether that means writing code, shaping product strategy, or growing revenue as a managing partner. Outside of work, I enjoy running, long-distance cycling tours across Europe, and experimenting with new technologies.

Work Experience

2Hero
40 hrs/week

2025 - present

AI Engineer (thesis)

At 2Hero, I work on Bluetext — infrastructure for running human/AI collaborative hackathons where hundreds of participants code on our platform simultaneously. I built core infrastructure using Kubernetes, Resonate for durable execution, Couchbase as a distributable database, and Curity for enterprise-grade security, all deployed on Hetzner infrastructure.
Kubernetes
Resonate
Couchbase
Curity
Hetzner
Polytope
MCP
Docker

Minimal AI
24 hrs/week

2024 - 2025

AI Engineer (freelance)

Minimal creates self-improving AI agents for e-commerce customer support. At Minimal AI, I worked on a custom UI to define protocols for AI agents. I also worked on the backend of the product, working on agentic workflows and partner integrations to solve e-commerce customer support tickets.
Python
LangGraph
Agentic Workflows
RAG
OpenAI API
Pinecone
Neon

Poolder Digital Asset Management
32 hrs/week

2023 - 2024

Full Stack & Web3 Engineer

Designed, built and launched Poolder's first digital products: a bespoke client-facing dashboard to manage invested funds as well as a blockchain based application to manage the investment process.
Next.js
Supabase
Solidity
Hardhat
Ethers.js
Docker

Extracurricular Experience

YES!Delft Students
40 hrs/week

2020 - 2021

Board Member Business Affairs

YES!Delft Students: Where Students Become Entrepreneurs. YES!Delft Students is the student association for entrepreneurship at the TU Delft, associated with YES!Delft, Europe's leading Tech Incubator. As a board member, I was responsible for the acquisition of new partners and the management of existing partnerships.

Education

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE

2024 - present
MSc. ICT Innovation (EIT Digital)
Specialisation: Human Computer Interaction & Design

Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Summer 2025
EIT Digital Summer School
Generative AI for Start-ups and Scale-ups

Delft University of Technology, Delft, NL

2017 - 2024
BSc. Computer Science and Engineering
Specialisation: Big Data, Minor: Technology-based Entrepreneurship

Skills

Solidity
MySQl/PostgreSQL
Docker
Full Stack Development
Redpanda/Kafka
Temporal/Resonate
LangChain/LangGraph
Agentic Workflows
Python
TensorFlow
Scrum
Git
Entrepreneurship
Product Engineering

Projects

Author Name Disambiguation using LLMs

BSc. thesis: novel approach to author name disambiguation using language models. Outperformed the state-of-the-art and was implemented in a larger open source project.

Bachelor Thesis
Python
TensorFlow
Phi-2
HuggingFace
Mistral-7b

E2R Adaptation of Figurative Language

MSc. thesis: agentic pipeline that detects and simplifies figurative language into Easy-to-Read English, improving accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities.

Master Thesis
Python
LangGraph
Mistral-7B
Qwen-2.5
Gemma-2

Luethi Peterson Camps Intl.

Volunteer camp counsellor at international summer camps in Switzerland, Norway, Estonia and the US, promoting intercultural understanding and self-sustainability.

International
Youth Counsellor
Off-grid
Summer Camps
Volunteer

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