Amsterdam, NL Head of Data @ KR&A
§ 01 · Portfolio / 2026
Ian Ronk
Ian Ronk
Head of Data @ KR&A

Geodata Engineering &
AI/ML Automation
for ops-heavy teams.

I design and ship production data systems and AI automations — pipelines, models and internal tools that replace manual work. Currently working across geospatial analytics, insurance, logistics, public sector and real estate.

Expertise:PythonPostGISAirflowLLM/RAGPyTorch

Hi, I'm Ian.
I ship production systems.

Head of Data at KR&A in Amsterdam, leading AI initiatives across European real estate, climate and alt-data work. MSc in Data Science & Business Analytics from Bocconi; BSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam.

I work at the intersection of geospatial analytics, AI/ML and the unglamorous data infrastructure that makes them useful. This site is where I keep the things I'm thinking about, building or have published.

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Ian RonkIAN · AMS · 2026
RoleHead of Data · KR&A
BasedAmsterdam · working EU-wide
EducationMSc Bocconi · BSc AI Amsterdam
StackPython · PostGIS · Airflow · LLM/RAG · PyTorch

Core competencies.

Specialized skills for production data systems, AI automations and geospatial pipelines — built to ship and stay shipped.

§ 03.01ML
01

Machine
Learning & AI

Production ML and AI — predictive models for valuation, rent and flood risk (90%+ accuracy), plus LLM pipelines and tool-using AI agents that automate research, classification and reporting.

SAMLVMsLangChainRAGPyTorchXGBoost
§ 03.02ENG
02

Data
Engineering

Robust data pipelines for European REITs, funds and institutional investors — geodata, alternative and unstructured inputs running on a distributed, dockerized Airflow stack.

AirflowDockerPythonPostgresPostGISdbt
§ 03.03GEO
03

Geospatial
Analysis

Advanced spatial analytics — agent-based gentrification modelling, street-level computer vision, and spatially-aware data science (downsampling, significance testing) that yields statistically robust results.

PostGISGeoPandasH3CVAgent-based
§ 03.04OPS
04

Internal
Processes

The backend of a business — sales systems, CRMs and AI-powered automations that replace manual work and scale with the team.

FastAPIPostgresLLMsn8nStripeDocker

Where I tend to work.

Domains I've spent time in — academically, professionally or both. Each has its own data quirks and its own definition of "good enough."

§ 04.01

Geospatial Analytics

Spatial pipelines, H3 indexing, parcel-level models, alt-data ingestion.

§ 04.02

Insurance & Climate Risk

Exposure modelling, flood and CV pipelines, claims triage automations.

§ 04.03

Logistics & Mobility

Routing, depot siting, last-mile, ops dashboards that replace ten manual reports.

§ 04.04

Public Sector & Planning

Mobility, climate adaptation, infrastructure resilience and parcel-level analysis.

§ 04.05

Real Estate & Investment

Valuation, gentrification ABMs, alt-data for REITs, funds and asset managers.

Selected work.

Things I've built or studied — at university, in research, and in my own time. Not a portfolio of client deliverables; a portfolio of thinking.

Recent thoughts.

Essays, tutorials and field notes. View all →

Selected papers.

Recent output on real-estate econometrics and geospatial methods. View All

Ian Ronk | Head of Data | Real Estate AI & Analytics