Available from March 2027
Ramon van den Akker
Independent AI, Machine Learning & Optimization Consultant
I have 15+ years of experience using AI, machine learning and optimization to turn data into better decisions, and delivering end-to-end solutions, from problem framing to production. I combine research-level rigor with pragmatic, production-focused delivery. I have worked in aviation, energy, banking, insurance, housing, the public sector and e-commerce.
Netherlands (remote/hybrid)
Recent clients include Schiphol, the Ministry of Defence, Alliander, Enexis, Just Eat Takeaway.com and ANWB Energie.
Expertise
Main areas
- Causal inference & experimentation
- Generative AI & agents
- Optimization & operations research
- Forecasting
- Reinforcement learning
- ML engineering & MLOps
Services
How I can help
Projects & interim roles
Hands-on delivery as data scientist, ML/AI engineer or lead, independently or inside your product or DevOps team.
- Forecasting, optimization and decision support
- Pricing and experimentation
- GenAI and AI engineering
- Greenfield projects, from idea to production
Consultancy & model review
An independent, senior view on models and plans before they cost you time or money.
- Independent review of models: methodology, code and deployment
- Advice at the start of projects and use cases
- Data and ML architecture
Training
Courses and workshops for data science teams and professionals, taught by a part-time associate professor at Tilburg University.
- Data science and machine learning
- Generative AI and LLMs
- Time series and forecasting
- Experimentation and causal inference
Selected experience
Recent clients and roles
- Schiphol
Forecasting, planning and simulation of passenger flows: production ML models and decision-making under uncertainty.
- Ministry of Defence
AI engineer for a GenAI solution on Azure in which AI agents extract structured business rules from legal documents.
- ANWB Energie
Short-term forecasting for sourcing and trading on the day-ahead, intraday and ex-post markets, including the data and ML engineering.
- Unigarant
Advisor and trainer to the data science team on forecasting, LLMs, contextual bandits and experimentation.
- Alliander
Agentic text-to-SQL and organization-wide chatbots for the LLM Center of Excellence.
- de Alliantie
Led the data science team: predictive models, RAG chatbots and MLOps practices.
- Enexis
Large-scale short-term load forecasting for grid congestion management.
- Just Eat Takeaway.com
Global order forecasting, experimentation with interference, and dynamic delivery-fee pricing with contextual bandits.
- Stichting BKR
Credit-scoring models and data pipelines, and an improvement plan and target architecture for the scoring engines.
- de Volksbank
Principal Data Scientist: led MILP-based mortgage RoboAdvice and ML for marketing and credit risk, and founded the bank's data science community.
Recommendations
What colleagues say
“There are few people who truly master the art of model development in a real company. […] Ramon is able to combine it all and lift the entire team to a higher level.”
“For a data scientist I truly consider him to be the ‘full package’: intelligent, pro-active, good communicator, extremely skilled statistician, and a good developer at the same time.”
“He has the quite rare combination of seriously extensive knowledge and experience in data science & AI, while being able to thoroughly understand and communicate the broader picture of business value as well.”
Contact
Planning a project for 2027? Let's talk.
- ramon@vandenakker.tech
- linkedin.com/in/ramonvdakker
RvdA AI & Data Science ConsultancyKvK 82050465Netherlands