Antti Puurula
Lead AI Engineer at Vic.ai
Christchurch Metropolitan Area New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAntti Puurula is a Distinguished Machine Learning Scientist with a decade of experience translating academic research into production AI for startups and enterprises. Based in Canterbury, New Zealand, he has led ML teams at Vic.ai—moving prototypes into scalable accounting automation—and continues to consult on optimized AI components for real-world software. His background spans large-scale text and speech research, deep learning for cybersecurity, and e-commerce search optimization, reflecting a rare combination of PhD-level rigor and hands-on engineering. Antti is comfortable across the ML lifecycle from prototyping to production and large-data pipelines, and he often blends generative graphical-model insights with modern deep-learning approaches to solve practical automation problems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at The University of WaikatoMaster of Philosophy (MPhil) Language Technology, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Language Technology at University of Helsinki
Github Skills (94)
parallel10
python10
deep-learning10
optimization10
r10
statistics10
gradient-boosting10
lightgbm10
gpt10
nlp10
kaggle10
data-science10
classification10
llama10
reinforcement-learning10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
anttttti/Wordbatch
Aug 2016 - Dec 2021
Python library for distributed AI processing pipelines, using swappable scheduler backends.
Contributions:10 releases, 94 commits, 6 PRs in 5 years 4 months
aipython
anttttti/DuneBlend
Jan 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:20 pushes in 4 months
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