Andres Tiko
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Zendesk
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndres Tiko is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience who transitioned from a PhD in experimental particle physics to building production ML and backend systems. He combines deep research pedigree from CERN and INFN—where he led publishable ML-driven analyses—with hands-on MLOps, NLP, and backend leadership at startups and enterprises like alphachat.ai, Zurich Insurance, Soulie, and Zendesk. As a former founder and CTO he blends product-minded engineering with architecture and team leadership, routinely shipping scalable ML features and APIs. Based in Tallinn, he brings an unusual mix of scientific rigor, applied ML engineering, and practical startup grit that helps turn complex data problems into deployable services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Tallinna ReaalkoolCERN summer schoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at University of Tartu
Italian, French, Finnish, English, Estonian
Github Skills (66)
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
nbdev10
fastai10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
tabs-management9
panorama9
matrix8
seaborn8
ipynb8
firefox-addon7
security7
word-segmentation7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
andresti/markdown-cv
Apr 2019 - May 2024
a simple template to write your CV in a readable markdown file and use CSS to publish/print it.
Contributions:2 PRs, 44 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
publishsimple-templatereadablemarkdown-filecss
andresti/alp_plots
Sep 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:19 pushes, 5 branches, 2 tags in 1 year 9 months
alpoutput-analysisplotsvisualization
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