Senior Data Scientist / AI Product Builder / Co-Founder

Hi, my name is Boje Deforce. I am a Senior data scientist

Building and productionizing ML and AI systems for real-world problems, from fraud detection, anomaly detection, agentic analytics, to enterprise automation. My work is grounded in thorough evaluation, user empathy, and systems that improve real decisions.

Senior Data Scientist on Walmart's global fraud prevention team, focused on production ML systems, agentic workflows, evaluation, and measurable product trade-offs.

My background includes a PhD in Business Economics, with research on machine learning for time-series and sensor data. I also co-founded Naos Optics, an eyewear company and scaled it to EUR300k ARR. The common thread is turning real-world problems into practical systems people actually use.

AI enablement

Model Sherpa

Co-built Model Sherpa, a specialized AI skill that guides data scientists through a production ML platform, turning its workflows and engineering standards into just-in-time, context-aware support.

Helps practitioners navigate training, evaluation, model registration, and promotion without needing to learn the platform by trial and error.

Fraud

Real-time fraud detection

Fraud detection systems for changing abuse patterns, balancing loss prevention, false positives, operational cost, and customer experience.

Anomaly detection

End-to-end anomaly detection platform

Agentic anomaly detection for monitoring distribution shifts, combining time-series methods, LLM workflows, evaluation, and automated triage.

Commerce automation

Shopify invoicing app

Built a Shopify app from scratch for EU-compliant invoice generation, integrating with Billit and automating billing workflows.

Open source / MCP

Billit MCP

Built a typed Python MCP server for invoice retrieval, exact payment-reference lookup, invoice creation, and payment updates in Billit.

Designed for safe agent use with environment-only credentials, idempotent writes, production safeguards, normalized outputs, and a fully tested API layer.

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Startup

Naos Optics

Co-founded an eyewear company scaled to EUR300k ARR, with product strategy, DTC growth, operations automation, and EUR150k in angel funding.

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Open source

Code Puppy contributor

Contributor to Code Puppy, Walmart's open-source AI coding tool for accelerating developer workflows.

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2026 - now · Bay Area, US

Senior Data Scientist - Walmart Global Tech

Fraud prevention work across production ML, agentic anomaly detection, and analytics automation.

2022 - now · Belgium

Co-Founder and Board Member - Naos Optics

Product, brand, operations, automation, and international growth for Naos Optics, an eyewear company.

2024 - 2025 · Amsterdam, NL

Applied Scientist II Intern - Amazon

Causal ML and Bayesian modeling for European marketing and video advertising insights.

2021 - 2025 · Leuven, BE / Pittsburgh, US

PhD Researcher - KU Leuven / Carnegie Mellon University

Machine learning for time-series, sensor data, smart agriculture, and self-supervised anomaly detection.

2019 - 2021 · Brussels, BE

Data Scientist and Consultant - Deloitte

Client-facing analytics, computer vision, text mining, product roadmaps, and innovation workshops.

My research focused on machine learning for time-series and sensor data, with applications in anomaly detection, forecasting, self-supervised learning, and smart agriculture.

At Naos Optics, my work spans product strategy, innovation, operations, automation, distribution, and growth. The company reached EUR300k ARR and raised EUR150k in angel funding while running a lean international DTC operation.

That work shaped how I think about building: useful products need user empathy, clear positioning, operational discipline, and systems that make the business easier to run.

Machine Learning

Forecasting, anomaly detection, fraud detection, causal inference, foundation models, evaluation.

Data & Systems

Python, SQL, JavaScript, PyTorch, AWS, GCP, BigQuery, CI/CD, Looker, APIs.

AI Systems

Agent loops, skills, plugins, MCP, tool use, multi-agent systems, LLM evaluations, and orchestration.

Business & Product

Product development, user research, stakeholder alignment, entrepreneurship, go-to-market, international growth.

Open to conversations about AI product work, data science & ML roles, applied AI systems, startups, and technical collaboration.