Jelle van Lieshout

Engineer passionate about technology and entrepreneurship.

Address: Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden

Nationality: Dutch

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

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About

I am a Human Computer Interaction & Design student and entrepreneur with a deep passion for agentic development—creating systems and products that can act autonomously and intelligently. My background spans IT, technical tools, financial management, and the founding and scaling of companies and products. I am driven to expand and apply my expertise, with professional experience in healthcare, online marketing, and finance sectors. I approach challenges with a solution-oriented mindset, take ownership of my projects, and consistently look beyond the boundaries of my assignments. Outside of work, I enjoy running, long-distance cycling tours across Europe, and experimenting with new technologies.

Work Experience

Minimal AI
24 hrs/week

2024 - 2025

AI Engineer

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
LangChain
LangGraph
Agentic Workflows
RAG
OpenAI API
Pinecone
Neon

Poolder Digital Asset Management
32 hrs/week

2023 - 2024

Full Stack Developer -> 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
Web3.js
Hardhat
Ethers.js
Docker

Kojac - IT Employment Agency
32 hrs/week

2021 - 2023

Managing Partner

Kojac is a Dutch IT employment agency that helps companies find the best IT talent. I have been responsible for the company's strategy, sales, and marketing, with a focus on financial management. Under my co-management, revenue grew with 20+% in 2022.
Business Strategy
Sales
Marketing
Financial Management
Leadership

WeConnect
4 hrs/week

2020 - present

Full Stack Developer & Advisor

Upon the acquisition of LiveResearch, I have continued advising and building on top of the existing product, expanding our services to Germany, Belgium and France.
React
Node.js
MySQL
MongoDB
Product Strategy

Turff
20 hrs/week

2018 - 2020

Co-founder & Software Architect

Turff provides a platform for students to keep track of their expenses within groups through a physical device combined with mobile- and web applications. With a team of 5 co-founders, we built Turff from 0 to operational, currently operating in 2500 households spread across the Netherlands.
Java
Android
Vue.js
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Hardware Integration
IoT
Co-founder

LiveResearch (acquired by WeConnect)
16 hrs/week

2017 - 2020

Full Stack Developer -> Managing Partner

LiveResearch provides fertility clinics all over Europe with a platform to manage their patients' satisfaction data. I have been responsible for the company's technological management.
React
Node.js
MySQL
MongoDB
Healthcare Tech
Managing Partner

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.

KSSV Sanctus Virgilius
4 hrs/week

2021 - 2024

Member of the Advisory Board

Responsible for advising and monitoring the executive board of K.S.V. Sanctus Virgilius (one of Delfts' oldest and largest student associations) on short- and long-term policy topics. Focused on topics of finance, active involvement of members in decision-making and reconsidering (traditional) values to promote a more progressive culture.

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. Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Minor: Technology-based Entrepreneurship

Skills

JavaScript
TypeScript
React/Next.js
Node.js
Supabase
Solidity
MySQl/PostgreSQL
Docker
LangChain
Agentic Workflows
Python
TensorFlow
Scrum
Git
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Tech Incubator
Product Design
Product Development

Projects

Author Name Disambiguation using LLMs

My BSc. graduation project entailed the development of a novel approach to author name disambiguation using language models. My researched approach outperformed the state-of-the-art and was implemented in a larger open source project.

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

Droppr

Droppr was a platform that connected people who needed to transport goods with people who had a car and were willing to transport. Unfortunately, we were unable to secure investment and decided to terminate the company.

Start-up
Logistical Management
Co-founder / CTO
E-commerce

Luethi Peterson Camps Intl.

LPC is an international organization I volunteer for as a camp counsellor, hosting summer camps for children from all over the world, promoting intercultural understanding and self-sustainability. I have been a counsellor at camps in Switzerland, Norway, Estonia and the US.

International
Youth Counsellor
Off-grid
Summer Camps
Volunteer

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