Nikolaas Steenbergen

AI consultant with over 10 years of experience specializing in production-ready computer vision and Large Language Model solutions. Proven track record of architecting and deploying automated data analysis pipelines for clients in civil engineering, autonomous vehicles, infrastructure and mapping.

Experience

• 2026 — Present
  Senior/Staff AI Engineer - Consultant
  Deep Safety GmbH
  Developing novel algorithms for uncertainty estimation for monocular depth estimation networks. Supporting smart camera software delivery for a US-based humanoid robotics company.
• 2024 — 2025
  Lead AI Engineer - Consultant
  Reiner AI
  Architecting an agentic RAG platform using (V)LLMs to provide intelligent support for civil engineering firms.
• 2024 — Present
  Founder
  LynxLabs.ai
  Architected and deployed a computer vision pipeline for processing aerial image and LiDAR data.
• 2021 — 2024
  Cofounder
  030Solutions GmbH
  Co-founded a deep-tech venture engineering a fully automated geospatial analysis pipeline for infrastructure mapping. Secured six-figure enterprise contracts for broadband expansion mapping.
• 2019 — 2021
  Senior Software Engineer & Delivery Manager
  TomTom
  Architecture and implementation of automatic analysis software for image and LiDAR data, creating maps for autonomous vehicles through ML and computer vision.
• 2016 — 2019
  Software Engineer - Deep Learning
  Autonomos / TomTom
  Developed software for autonomous vehicles (C++, ROS), computer vision, and machine learning. Built a deep learning team from the ground up.
• 2015 — 2016
  Researcher
  DFKI - Intelligent Analysis of Massive Data
  Research and development for distributed systems and machine learning, contributing to Apache Flink.

Education

• 2012 — 2014
  M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence
  University of Amsterdam
• 2009 — 2011
  B.Sc. Digital Media
  University of Bremen

Skills

Open Source

• Contributor to Google TensorFlow (Python, C++)
• Contributor to Apache Flink (Java)
• Contributor to Open3D (C++, Python)
• Creator of pptk-revived — point cloud visualization toolkit
• Creator of Klaus Kode — AI agent for open source contributions

Highlights

• 3rd place at the Iranian Open, Tehran — RoboCup standard league platform with the Dutch Nao team (Autonomous Robot Soccer)