Adam
Oentoro

Machine learning and AI, focused on evaluating whether these systems work and on building, deploying, and running them in production.

Amsterdam, NL

From Research
to Production

I studied AI at VU Amsterdam and taught machine learning there for three years. These days I focus on the engineering around AI: evaluating whether these systems actually work, and building, deploying, and operating them so they run reliably in production.

My MSc thesis was as much an evaluation project as a systems one: a deterministic, LLM-as-judge pipeline that scored 270 simulated conversations across eight dimensions and three model providers, measuring how ontology grounding changed their behaviour.

What I enjoy most is the systems side: cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and monitoring that take AI from a notebook to something that runs reliably. I've shipped async ML inference services with FastAPI, Celery and Docker, and a home stack that cut full redeploys from hours to minutes.

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MY JOURNEY

Places I've Called Home

5Cities
4Countries
3Continents
20+Years

Work & Career

2026–Present

Infrastructure and Home Automation Engineer

Independent

Designed and operated a smart-building platform integrating 170+ KNX devices with Home Assistant.

2026–Present

AI & Digital Solutions Consultant

Aktiv Asia Management

Evaluated AI and financial software solutions, produced banking and fintech market analysis for Indonesia & Southeast Asia.

2022–2025

Teaching Assistant

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Delivered lab sessions and tutoring across Machine Learning, Deep RL, and Information Management courses.

Selected Work

More Work

Currently Building

Neural Dynamic

An AI-native assessment platform for technical decision-making roles. Candidates work through realistic scenarios with an LLM in the loop, scored on judgment rather than trivia, with decisions modelled as traceable graph objects.

Reproducible, explainable scoring by design

MSc Thesis

Multi-Ontology LLM Framework

Multi-agent conversational AI integrating FoodOn ontology and USDA databases across GPT-4 Mini, Claude 3.5, and Grok 3. Benchmarked 270 simulated conversations.

13.9% performance variation discovered between providers

Research Project

Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

Trained DQL, PPO, and DDPG agents for mobile navigation and manipulation. Successfully transferred policies from simulation to physical hardware.

Sim-to-real transfer achieved

BSc Thesis

Self-Adaptive Systems Profiling

Extended MockSAS with DingNet IoT scenario profile to study multi-armed bandit policies in self-adaptive systems.

Novel IoT scenario for policy benchmarking

Infrastructure

Smart Building Automation

Integrated 170+ KNX devices with Home Assistant. Ansible, Docker Compose, and Tailscale for deployment and secure access.

11 climate zones managed

Academic Background

2020–2025

VU

Amsterdam

BSc & MSc in
Artificial Intelligence

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MSc Focus: LLMs & Multi-Agent Systems

Multi-Agent SystemsNLPKnowledge RepresentationStatistical Evaluation

Technical Stack

Languages

  • Python
  • Rust
  • SQL
  • R
  • Java

ML & GPU

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • CUDA
  • Nvidia Nsight
  • Stable Baselines 3

MLOps & Serving

  • FastAPI
  • Celery
  • Redis
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions

Cloud & Infra

  • AWS
  • Terraform / OpenTofu
  • Ansible
  • Tailscale
  • Git

Certified Credentials

01

Secure AI/ML-Driven Software Development

Linux Foundation

May 2026

02

Fundamentals of Open Source IT and Cloud Computing

Linux Foundation

May 2026

03

AI Infrastructure & Operations Fundamentals

NVIDIA

April 2026

04

Accelerating End-to-End Data Science Workflows

NVIDIA

March 2026

05

Getting Started with Deep Learning

NVIDIA

February 2026

06

Databricks Fundamentals

Databricks

October 2025

07

Evaluation and Light Customization of LLMs

NVIDIA

September 2025

08

Accelerated Computing in CUDA C/C++

NVIDIA

September 2025

09

AWS Machine Learning Foundations

Amazon Web Services

August 2022

Let's Connect

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