Anders Sandholm
Founder & CEO at Kynapse Technologies
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
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Top SchoolAnders Sandholm is a fintech founder and former Google Group Product Manager with 12+ years of experience building large-scale digital products and anti-abuse systems that have impacted billions of users. He combines a Computer Science PhD with an INSEAD MBA and McKinsey strategy experience to blend rigorous technical depth with product and business leadership. At Google he drove ML/AI and graph-mining efforts for fraud detection across Search, Commerce and YouTube, and contributed to the widely used SLING project to infer Wikidata facts from Wikipedia. Now leading Kynapse Technologies, he focuses on fighting payment fraud while actively backing early-stage startups across AI, developer tooling and finance. Known for shipping pragmatic, standards-minded technology (including work on Dart and V8) he pairs research-grade engineering with a founder’s instinct for commercial leverage.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Aarhus UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at INSEAD
Danish, English, German
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Github Skills (8)
data-extraction10
wikidata10
python10
data-processing10
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/sling
Jul 2018 - Aug 2020
SLING - A natural language frame semantics parser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 63 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Anders primarily contributed to the development of the `google/sling` repository, a natural language frame semantics parser. Their work involved implementing features related to Wikipedia data processing, including restricting concurrent downloads, updating file names, and adding code for extracting birth dates. Additionally, the user developed a bot for storing fact records in Wikidata, demonstrating an understanding of data management and integration with external knowledge bases. The user also made enhancements to date extraction and added a dashboard to monitor the status of updates.
nlpknowledge-representationnatural-language-understandingframesemantics
dart-archive/dart_enhancement_proposals
Jan 2015 - Jan 2018
This repo contains info on DEP - Dart Enhancement Proposal
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years
flutterdartdepenhancement
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