ALEX GOLDHOORN

Senior Data Scientist
alex@goldhoorn.net • linkedin.com/in/agoldhoorn • alex.goldhoorn.net
Barcelona, Spain • Dutch/EU Citizen • Remote

Professional Summary

Senior Data Scientist with 12+ years of industry experience specializing in logistics optimization, discrete event simulation, and LLM agent systems. Built production systems serving 120,000+ couriers across 23 countries. PhD in Robotics with expertise in planning under uncertainty.

Core Skills

Languages: Python, Go, C++, SQL

ML/AI: LLM Evaluation, Agent Systems, RAG, Machine Learning, Deep Learning

Optimization: Discrete Event Simulation, Vehicle Routing (VRP), Discrete Optimization

Tools: PyTorch, Google OR-Tools, DeepEval

Dev Tools: GitHub Copilot, Cursor, VS Code, bash/zsh, AWS

Professional Experience

Senior Data Science Consultant • Hybrid Mind • Mar 2026 - Present

Senior data science contractor placed via Hybrid Mind Consulting. Delivering LLM systems design, agent evaluation frameworks, and data-driven automation for enterprise clients.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer • AstraZeneca • Mar 2026 - Present

LLM Agent Systems: LLM agent design and evaluation for enterprise data workflows.

Senior Data Scientist • Meight (Freight Logistics) • Dec 2024 - Feb 2026

LLM Agent Evaluation: Designed comprehensive evaluation framework combining classical ML metrics with LLM-as-a-judge evaluation (faithfulness, cost) for AI agents automating freight manager tasks, ensuring production reliability
Tour Optimization: Developed algorithms integrating real-time telematics and EU driving-time regulations to optimize freight planning and reduce empty running, boosting Revenue Per Kilometer (RPK)

Senior Data Scientist • Glovo (On-Demand Delivery) • Nov 2019 - Nov 2024

Delivery Simulator: Led architecture and refactor of discrete event simulator for Glovo's delivery network (23 countries, 120,000+ couriers), enabling rapid experimentation and hyperparameter optimization across the full delivery lifecycle
Matching Optimization: Built automated optimization pipeline for matching cost function, balancing delivery speed, courier earnings, and operational efficiency at global scale
Route Optimization (VRP): Implemented Vehicle Routing Problem solution for Live Multibundling, enabling dynamic order batching and real-time route optimization, reducing delivery times and costs

Senior R&D Software Developer • Atomian (Cognitive AI) • Jun 2017 - Nov 2019

Built ETL pipelines and prediction models for a cognitive NLP platform extracting structured data from unstructured patient reports and legal documents

PhD Researcher • IRI - Institut de Robòtica (CSIC-UPC) • Apr 2011 - Jun 2017

Thesis: Human search and tracking in urban environments using humanoid robots — POMCP, particle filters, Reinforcement Learning
Validation: Conducted 3km+ of autonomous experiments with humanoid robots in real-world urban settings, handling uncertainty and noisy sensors

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Automatic Control, Robotics and Computer Vision
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain • 2011 - 2017

Master of Science (MSc) in Artificial Intelligence
University of Groningen, Netherlands • 2005 - 2008

Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computing Science
University of Groningen, Netherlands • 2003 - 2006

Certifications

Anthropic Education (8 courses, Apr 2026): Claude 101, Claude Code, Building with the Claude API, agent skills, subagents, MCP intro & advanced
LangChain Academy (7 courses, Mar 2026): LangChain intro, LangSmith, reliable agents, observability & evals, LangGraph (ambient agents, deep research, deep agents)
DeepLearning.AI (Nov 2025–May 2026): AI for Medical Diagnosis, ML in Production, Generative AI for Software Development, PyTorch for Deep Learning, Agentic AI, and 41 short courses on agents, evaluation, RAG, MCP, transformers, and more
Deep Learning Specialization (5-course) — DeepLearning.AI / Coursera (Jul 2019)
Discrete Optimization — Georgia Institute of Technology / Coursera (Dec 2020)

Languages

Dutch (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), Catalan (proficient)