> Hi, my name is

Thomas Van den houdt.

Your local data & AI guy.

I am an Applied Computer Science student at UC Leuven-Limburg with a passion for data, programming, and decision making. I'm specializing in frontier AI models, edge AI, and MLops. My goal is to leverage AI to solve real-world problems and create impactful solutions.

/experience

My professional journey and technical roles.

AI Engineering Intern

Inspectwise

February 2026 - Present

Experimenting with frontier AI models, edge AI and MLops. Connecting an OCR and LLM model on-device for hyper-fast recognition of machine labels. Also worked on massive scale data extraction and processing pipelines using Typescript and the Mistral suite of tools.

Local LLMsOCREdge AIMLopsMistralTypescript

Finance Manager

Terraco (Student Project)

September 2022 - June 2023

For a culminating high school economics project, my classmates and I initiated a small business with assistance from VLAJO. I took charge of all accounting responsibilities and held ultimate authority over our expenses and financial decisions.

FinanceAccountingLeadership

Winkel-Assistent (Student)

OKay

August 2022 - Present

Learning to work in a team and being punctual while doing manual work in a fast-paced retail environment.

TeamworkPunctuality

/education & skills

Education

UC Leuven-Limburg

Toegepaste Informatica (AI), Information Technology

September 2023 - August 2026

Sint-janscollege Meldert

ASO, Economie-Moderne Talen

September 2017 - June 2023

Certifications

  • Certificaat in bedrijfsbeheer

Technical Skills

Local LLMsOptical Character Recognition (OCR)Machine LearningPythonEdge AIMLopsGitReact / Next.js

Languages

Dutch (Native)
English (Full Professional)
French (Limited)
German (Elementary)

/projects

A collection of things I have built.

Edge AI Vision App

A mobile application that runs OCR and Local LLMs completely on-device for hyper-fast, offline machine label recognition.

FlutterLocal LLMsOCRDart

Fake News Analysis

A machine learning project focused on identifying and analyzing fake news articles using natural language processing techniques.

PythonTensorFlowPandasNumPy

Portfolio Website

A highly responsive, terminal-inspired developer portfolio built with the new Tailwind CSS v4 and Next.js App Router.

Next.jsTailwind v4TypeScript

Resume Converter

A converter to standardize resumes into a format following ACA guidelines. It takes in various resume formats and outputs a consistent design.

Next.jsJSONLLMs