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Hein de Wilde

heindewilde.com

Projects

Ongoing

Platform to compare web browsers based on features, speed, privacy, extensions, and more.

Ongoing

Platform to browse and compare vibe coding tools, including useful resources to level up your work. Work in progress.

Ongoing

Quick little tool to calculate how much money you've spent on cigarettes and what you could have done with that instead.

Ongoing
Substack

Writing about interesting things I've come across to my (small but growing) newsletter audience.

Work Experience

2025 — Now
Amsterdam

Freelance data & AI specialist through my newly-founded agency. Doing project-based work for a diverse set of clients (from startups to corporates) while also building scalable software products.

2024 — 2025
Amsterdam

Worked at the intersection of strategy consulting and data science. Completed several business analytics and (generative) AI projects for clients from various sectors, including retail, consumer, and energy.

2023 — 2023
Amsterdam

Used geospatial and meteorological data to predict phenological processes. Concluded the internship with a working prototype of a prediction algorithm, which improved upon previous work in the field.

2021 — 2021
Amsterdam

Connected startups and scale-ups with corporations and governments to form strategic tech partnerships. Worked on projects for Adyen, Nestlé, Rabobank and Pon.

2020 — 2020
Amsterdam

Supported the team with implementing their product (for detecting fraud, money laundering and terrorism financing) into the architecture of payment service provider Mollie.

Volunteering

2025 — Now
Mentor at Forward·Inc

Supporting forcibly displaced entrepreneurs with tech and data challenges they might encounter while running their business.

2025 — Now
Volunteer at Hardlist

Researching startups for inclusion on the Hardlist website and supporting the organisation of in-person events for the hard tech community.

2023 — Now
Data Analytics at Volt Europa

Contributing where I can to build Europe into the strong, innovative, democratic and safe continent that it deserves to be.

Education

2022 — 2023
MSc Data Science (cum laude) at University of Amsterdam

Did some more advanced number-crunching.

2017 — 2022
BSc Information Science at University of Amsterdam

Learned the ropes of crunching numbers.

Awards

2024
T500 from TNW x Financial Times

Selected as one of the top 500 digital minds under the age of 30 in the Netherlands.

2023
T500 from TNW x Young Creators

Selected as one of the top 500 digital minds under the age of 30 in the Netherlands.

Contact

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