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Werner Kruger

Head of Data Science, DataEng and MLEng

€650/day
Eindhoven, NL
15+ years
Python
SQL
Data analysis
Leadership
Common Sense

Average response time: 1 hour

About Werner

I help fintech and lending businesses build the data and risk infrastructure they need to scale. With nearly 30 years spanning credit risk, fraud, ML engineering, and executive leadership — including Klarna (VP of Data Science), Standard Bank (Group Head of Data Science), and Bloom Group (CDO, founding team) — I've built these systems from scratch and at global scale.

I work best with companies that are past early traction and need to professionalize their risk, ML, or data function: building what they don't yet have, fixing what isn't working, or helping leadership make better-informed technology decisions.

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Empower (Tilt)
    Head of Data Science, DataEng and MLEng
    July 2025 - Today (11 months)
    Leading the data function across Data Science, Data Engineering, and ML Engineering to build a modern data & AI platform for one of the fastest growing consumer fintech products. Responsible for team leadership, technical architecture, long-term data strategy, ML operations, and delivering models and pipelines that directly support user growth, retention, and risk management.
  • LawFi, Inc.
    CDO; CTO ; Part of founding team
    August 2022 - June 2025 (2 years and 10 months)
    Remote, OR, USA
    Building the technology foundations to enable Legal Fee Financing, a unique offering enabling attorneys in Florida to offer credit to their customers. I am responsible for overall architecture, Loans Origination System, credit underwriting, data warehousing and integrations (open banking, credit bureaus, CRM and many more).
  • Bloom Group S.A.
    Chief Data Officer
    October 2019 - September 2022 (2 years and 11 months)
    London, UK
    A core contributor to Bloom's founding team and Series A fundraising (including securing a £300M investment).
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Education

  • Nanodegree in AI Trading Strategies Associate Professional Risk Manager (APRM) Deep Learning
    Nanodegree
    Nanodegree in AI Trading Strategies Associate Professional Risk Manager (APRM) Deep Learning
  • Executive Data Science Specialization Introduction to Machine Learning
    PyTorch
    Executive Data Science Specialization Introduction to Machine Learning
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