AI Engineer · Netherlands

The model proposes. The code decides. A human signs off.

I build AI systems that ship into regulated businesses.

Taiki Papandreou

About

I'm the engineer at a five-person AI consultancy in the Netherlands, which in practice means I build the thing, deploy it, write the documentation, sit in the client meeting, and then explain it to the board.

In four months I've put an assistant live inside a client's own Azure tenant twenty days after the first commit, rebuilt an insurer's risk-assessment process as a tool where the AI proposes and a human decides, and built our entire back office - invoicing, e-signing, bank reconciliation, VAT returns - because buying five subscriptions was the worse option.

Before that: an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam, and three published papers on text simplification and fairness in graph neural networks.

I build with agentic coding tools day to day, and I say so to clients rather than letting them find out later.

Skills

AI / ML
Large language models · agent loops with tool use · RAG · provenance-tracked extraction · prompt design · LLM-as-judge evaluation · PyTorch · Transformers · Azure AI Foundry · OpenAI and Anthropic APIs
Backend
Python · FastAPI · SQLAlchemy · Node.js · Postgres · SQL · REST APIs · golden-file and unit testing
Frontend
React 19 · TypeScript · vanilla JS · hand-built SVG data visualisation
Cloud / DevOps
Microsoft Azure (App Service, Entra, Bot Service, OpenAI) · Docker · GitHub Actions · Railway · Cloudflare · OAuth and secret handling
Microsoft 365
Graph API · Teams bots · Power Automate · Office Scripts
Compliance
GDPR and EU AI Act assessment · EU data residency · retention rules · DPA and sub-processor review
Languages
Dutch · English · Japanese

Contact

Reach me at taiki.papandreou at gmail dot com, or find me on LinkedIn and X.