Ben

AI & Automation Engineer · Amsterdam

i ship production AI.i'm 19.

second-year Honours CS student at TU/e, founder of BYK. i build production AI by day (retrieval, pipelines, agents) and ship my own tools in public the rest of the time. i write it up on the blog and post the messy version on X.

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01Selected work

the proof. real systems, real teams.

some of this runs in production every day. some i built to win a hackathon or prove a point. a couple are under wraps, so they stay vague on purpose.

01FLAGSHIP · CONFIDENTIAL

Regulatory-intelligence platform

Real-time tracking of regulatory change across every market a major European tech company operates in. It scrapes the updates, runs fully-automated parliamentary trackers, and sits a hybrid SQL + vector retrieval layer over all of it, so briefings write and re-update themselves as new documents land. Detection, synthesis and metadata handled by the pipeline; in daily use by a ~70-person legal function.

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~0person legal function using it
0fully-automated parliamentary trackers
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The team at AI Fixathon Amsterdam after winning the Work Rights trackAI Fixathon Amsterdam · 1st place
021ST PLACE · AI FOR GOOD

Work Rights Navigator

Won the Work Rights track at AI Fixathon Amsterdam. 24 hours, two people. An accessibility-first web app that walks vulnerable workers through the UK employment-tribunal process: plain-language intake, deadline + case-journey tracking, document prep, and a streaming AI chatbot. 8 languages, with screen-reader, dyslexia and colourblind support built in from minute one.

ACCESSIBILITY-FIRSTSTREAMING AI24H BUILD
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03

MoveWorth

Career-relocation simulator. two cities in, offer + spend in, net-worth math out. i dug it back up, removed the signup wall, added shareable verdicts, and shipped it.

LIVEFINANCE TOOLNEXT.JS
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04NDA

Internal legal knowledge hub

A searchable knowledge layer over a legal team's own documents, so answers come from the source instead of someone's memory. Hybrid SQL + vector retrieval under the hood.

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AI tooling for real estate

AI tooling from my time as a real-estate assistant. same retrieval and extraction patterns as the legal work, a very different domain. proof the playbook travels.

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Burnout detection for ER nurses

My Honours project, on the health & wellbeing track: catching burnout in ER nurses before it hits. PPG / HRV sensing and custom ESP32 hardware, measuring the physiological signal of chronic stress so it can be caught early. Analytics now, AI detection next.

HONOURSPPG · HRVHEALTH-TECH

early by design. i'd rather show a handful of things that are genuinely in production than pad the list.

02Shipped

everything i've made. live, experiments, and the in-between.

the running log, newest first. the headliners get the cards above; this is the whole list, kept honest.

03Who i am
Ben BykovskiAmsterdam · 2026

production experience. at 19.

i'm Ben. 19, based in Amsterdam. second-year Honours CS student at TU/e, top ~10% of my cohort, on the “Empowerment for Health & Wellbeing” track.

i started an AI automation internship at a major European tech company in march 2026, building production systems inside an in-house legal function. a couple of months in, there's already real software a ~70-person team opens every morning.

on the side i run BYK, my AI & automation studio, and i build my own tools because i can't not. the differentiator is having actually shipped to production.

off the clock: 7+ years in the gym, BJJ, motorcycles, and strong opinions about food.

Role
AI & automation engineer
Study
Honours CS · TU/e · 2nd year
Based
Amsterdam / Eindhoven, NL
Stack
RAG · pgvector · Supabase · Flask · Next.js
04Now / building

what i'm on right now.

  • BYKmy AI & automation studio, taking the production playbook to teams buried in documents and busywork. byk.studio →
  • Kovosmy personal AI operating system. research, memory, a builder, daily automations, all run from telegram. named from the slavic root kov- (to forge) in bykovski: the system i forge everything with. i dogfood it daily. the daily-brief part grew into a product, earlyline. the build log · earlyline.ai →
  • Writingthe longer write-ups live on the blog; the day-to-day, half-finished stuff goes on X. @benbykovski →
  • Open tohackathons and build weekends, meeting other builders and founders, and any genuinely good AI event. if it's about shipping, i'm probably in.
Get in touch

building something, or just want to talk?

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