Curriculum vitae
Jiaqi Chen
AI Engineer & Entrepreneur · CTO at DialogueTrainer · Leiden, Netherlands
- Email: jchennq@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jqai (opens in new tab)
- GitHub: github.com/iloos (opens in new tab)
Summary
AI Engineer & Entrepreneur with experience in startups, including MLOps, context engineering, and conversational AI. I've founded ventures, managed €20k budgets, and delivered 30+ AI workshops while building practical AI solutions for contact centres and dialogue systems.
Actively engaged in the startup ecosystem through incubators, advisory roles, and founder/AI networks, hackathons, and social events. I thrive in dynamic environments where I can experiment, collaborate, and translate emerging AI research into business value.
Regular contributor to communities like AISO and StudieStap, combining technical expertise with public speaking and knowledge transfer to drive AI adoption and entrepreneurship.
Experience
Dec 2024 – present Utrecht, Netherlands
- AI developer intern (Dec 2024) → Head of Product (Nov 2025) → CTO (Nov 2026)
- Leading product vision and strategy, roadmap planning, and stakeholder management
- Built and evolved MVP for LLM-driven dialogue systems with dynamic context adaptation and PromptOps workflows
- Coordinating development team and managing requirements and ticket workflows
- Conducted user surveys and feedback sessions with detailed qualitative and quantitative analysis
- Created the first two dialogue-scenarios and led to dozens more made by others, totaling 100+ hours of playthroughs
- Driving evolution of DialogueTrainer's platform from MVP to market-ready product
Aug 2024 – present Leiden, Netherlands
Board Member, Business Manager, Treasurer
- Managed €20k annual budget and professionalized operational workflows
- Led complete organizational setup: finance, legal compliance, and digital infrastructure
- Organized workshops, keynotes, and 8-hour 'Impacthon' startup crash course
- Delivered AI and entrepreneurship sessions across universities and vocational schools
- Served as pitch jury and advised early-stage ventures on AI strategy and business development
Sep 2024 – present Leiden, Netherlands
AI Workshops and Keynotes for High Schools
- Delivered 30+ self-developed AI workshops for high school audiences (avg. 10–20 attendees)
- Topics included ChatGPT & Thesis Writing, Self-Driving Cars & AI Dimensions, and AI & Entrepreneurship
- Dozens of positive feedback responses from students and teachers with repeat invitations
- Was educated on didactic methods for workshops
- Made a lead management system and funnel to streamline bookings and follow-ups
Sep 2023 – Jul 2024 Utrecht, Netherlands
Founder
- Co-founded transcription & AI analytics startup for Dutch contact centres
- Architected LLM pipelines: messenger-style call views, emotion-over-time, conversion/opening analysis, auto-tagging, aggregate reporting
- Processed 25 hours of unique call audio and over 100 total hours during development and testing
- Led business strategy and technical development across cloud architecture, data engineering, and backend systems
Sep 2021 – Jul 2022 Utrecht, Netherlands
Financial timeseries analysis project
- Trained LSTM & Transformer neural networks for OHLCV chart data with TensorFlow/Keras
- Tracked experiments with Weights & Biases and tuned hyperparameters using Optuna
- Developed interactive Plotly dashboards for financial trend analysis and strategy evaluation
Dec 2021 – Feb 2023 Utrecht, Netherlands
R&D, Co-founder
HedgeML
- Explored Bayesian network-style modelling to link technical and external signals into joint probability predictions
- Worked on PoC, learning full-stack development, and business strategy development
Jan 2022 – May 2022 Utrecht, Netherlands
R&D, Business Development
Genesis Algo
- Researched trading algorithms and AI-assisted strategies for technical analysis
- Built early trading platform concepts and backtesting workflows
- Contributed to general business development in a first close-up startup experience
Jan 2018 – Dec 2022 Netherlands
Various Roles
Early Career Experience
- Trust Marketing: Sales for charities, developing communication and public speaking skills
- Philosophy Ambassador: Youth representative for philosophy keynotes and cultural events
- Kitchen Operations: Time management and teamwork experience in fast-paced environment
- Educational Content: Designed chemistry study materials for Dutch state exam preparation
- Freelance Photography: Professional client work developing visual storytelling and business skills
Community & engagement
Jul 2024 – present Utrecht, Netherlands
Board Member
- Hosted and prepared a fireside chat with Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, for 130+ students (Jun 2026)
- Active participant in AI student community events, workshops, and networking
- Co-head of travel committee organizing educational trips and cultural experiences
- Contributed to building inclusive AI community through social and academic engagement
Jun 2024 – present Netherlands
Community Member/Manager
- Active member in 850+ community of hackathon winners and entrepreneurs with strong technical focus
- Operations team: hackathon coordination for sponsored teams, stakeholder management
- Community communication and networking event coordination
Jan 2024 – present Amsterdam, Netherlands
Public Engagement Fellow
- Hosted De Digitale Schijf van Vijf with HvA, UvA and Amsterdam AI during Week van de Digitalisering, connecting government, education and industry on AI and wellbeing (Sep 2026)
- Active participant in Amsterdam's AI ecosystem and community events
- Engaged with local AI initiatives, meetups, and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Connected with Amsterdam-based AI practitioners and researchers
Education
Sep 2020 – Jul 2025 Utrecht, Netherlands
- Honours Programme: AI R&D for financial analysis using contrastive learning
- Bachelor Thesis Grade: 8.5/10, Honours Programme completion
- Co-head of travel committee, AI student association
- Exchange semester at National Taiwan University (NTU)
- Active startup ecosystem participation throughout studies
Feb 2023 – Jul 2023 Taipei, Taiwan
Exchange Program in Computer Science & Business
- NTU scholarship recipient, ICL educational program participant
- Enhanced international perspective through interdisciplinary coursework
Sep 2013 – Jun 2020 Leiden, Netherlands
- PWS (thesis): 'Hoe verhoudt de fotografie zich tot de realiteit?'
- Model United Nations: 7 participations across Admin, Delegate, Staff, Press roles
- Cambridge Certificate Advanced English (Score 199: C1/C2)
- Kangaroo Mathematics Competition: 3 participations, 2nd place
- Extracurriculars: Astronomy, street art, art commissions
Skills
- AI & machine learning
- NLP & Speech Processing, 6 years
- Large Language Models, 2 years
- PromptOps, 1 year
- LLM Agents, under a year
- Voice AI & Speech Synthesis, under a year
- AI Ethics & Society, 7 years
- Machine Learning, 4 years
- Time Series & Financial Analysis, 1 year
- Bayesian Statistics, 1 year
- Programming
- Python, 6 years
- REST APIs, under a year
- AI Development Tools, 3 years
- Git & CI/CD, 2 years
- Software Architecture, 2 years
- JavaScript/TypeScript, 1 year
- NumPy, Pandas, SciPy & NLTK, under a year
- Data & analytics
- Data Analysis, 6 years
- Data Visualization, 3 years
- Data Engineering, 1 year
- Feature Engineering, 1 year
- Tools & platforms
- Google Workspace, 8 years
- Agile Methodologies, 2 years
- Circleback, 1 year
- Claude Code, under a year
- Discord, Slack & WhatsApp, 4 years
- Miro, 2 years
- Trello, 2 years
- Microsoft Office, 2 years
- Notion, 1 year
- Jira, 1 year
- Supabase, under a year
- Lovable, under a year
- Business & product
- Startup Operations, 3 years
- Product Strategy, 2 years
- Stakeholder Management, 2 years
- Project Management, 2 years
- Rapid Prototyping, under a year
- Leadership
- Team Leadership, 2 years
- Strategic Planning, 2 years
- Communication
- Written Communication, 6 years
- Presentation Skills, 3 years
- Interpersonal
- Team Collaboration, 3 years
- Professional Networking, 2 years
- Analytical
- Research & Investigation, 6 years
- Systems Thinking, 1 year
- Creative
- Professional Photography, 8 years
- Domain knowledge
- Philosophy, 1 year
- Chemistry Education, under a year
- Other
- Problem Solving, 13 years
- Active Listening, 13 years
- Public Speaking, 6 years
- Workshop Design, 4 years
- Cross-Cultural Communication, under a year
- Philosophical Dialogue, 7 years
- Mentorship & Coaching, 1 year
- Negotiation & Diplomacy, under a year
Every skill, with the roles it was used in: skills explorer .
Languages
- Native
- Dutch — Native fluency.
- Native
- English — Native-level fluency; Cambridge CAE score 199
- Fluent
- Chinese (Mandarin) — Conversationally fluent; smaller vocabulary than native speakers
Certifications
- Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English (Score 199: C1/C2)
- Multiple MUN participations (7x) as Admin, Delegate, Staff and Press team
- Kangaroo maths competition participant (3x, 2nd place once)