• 2025 - Present

  Senior Staff Engineer

  Qualcomm Inc.

  • Bootstrapped innovation team with senior leadership to support product and research initiatives across the business unit.
  • Lead innovation-centric prototyping of complex new product features.
  • Translate state-of-the-art research into viable new product features resulting in increased revenue.
  • Rapidly develop and deploy new features for prospective customers.
  • Full-stack web application development.
• 2022 - 2025

  Principal engineering consultant

  Edge Impulse Inc

  • Full-stack web application development.
• 2022 - 2025

  Chief Information Security Officer

  Edge Impulse Inc

  • Completed SOC2 Type 1 & 2 compliance implementation and audit.
  • Managed risk assessment and mitigation.
  • Established cybersecurity framework.
• 2019 - 2022

  Infrastructure Team Lead

  Edge Impulse Inc

  • Architected AWS based infrastructure for machine learning platform.
  • Recruited and led infrastructure team.
• 2015 - 2019

  Interim Lead Developer

  Postcode Lotterie DT gGmbH

  • Architected AWS based infrastructure for corporate website and lottery ticket sales funnel.
  • Selected technology stack for a rebuild of the corporate website.
  • Educated junior developers on new technology (GraphQL, Terraform, ...).
• 2015 - 2019

  Co-founder / Lead Developer

  Leaplines B.V.

  • Developed and architected multiple web applications based on Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL and PostgreSQL.
  • Maintained hosting environment based on OpenStack, Terraform, Rancher and AWS.
  • Led a team of junior developers and UX designers.

• Co-founder / Lead Developer

  Brewin' Apps AS

  • Developed and architected iOS and Android applications for a wide range of corporate customers.

Bio

I am an embedded machine learning specialist and full-stack developer. I am interested in the latest advances in machine learning, cloud infrastructure, and information security. I enjoy working with startups and companies where rapid innovation is paramount.

With a background in infrastructure and full-stack development, I previously architected AWS-based infrastructures tailored for high-demand and business-critical applications.

I studied Computer Science at Utrecht University with a focus on compiler construction.

Blog

Color-Coding YubiKeys

Dec 22, 2025

YubiKeys are great—until you end up with multiple identical YubiKeys and no idea which one is which. After struggling to identify my keys, I decided to fix the problem myself.

Goodbye Cookie Banners, Hello Pure HTML! 🤖

Dec 10, 2025

My previous blogging platform held me back from posting to my blog as I couldn't easily make my posts look as sexy as I wanted. LLMs enable me to write and maintain pure HTML and CSS without the boring effort traditionally required.

Autonomous Embedded Driving Using Computer Vision

Sep 1, 2020

In this blog post, we would like to share an exciting application utilizing our recently launched machine vision functionality. We will show you how you can create your own autonomously driving vehicle using Edge Impulse and the OpenMV platform with a model using only 121 KB of RAM.

Publications

Presentations

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I'd love to hear about projects or companies where I can add value. You can contact me at mathijs@mathijsbaaijens.nl