Florian Schneider
Member Of Technical Staff Embeddings And Search at Cohere
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolFlorian Schneider is a research-focused software engineer and PhD in vision-language models with 11 years of hands-on experience building multimodal ML systems, scientific software, and production tooling. Currently a Member of Technical Staff on Embeddings and Search at Cohere, he blends academic rigor from Universität Hamburg with industry internships at Microsoft and IBM to evaluate and operationalize multilingual and multimodal language models. His background spans full-stack and cloud-based engineering, applied computer vision (e.g., automated VIN/PR detection), and ontology alignment using zero-shot LLM techniques. Florian’s work sits at the intersection of Information Retrieval, digital humanities, and visio-linguistic grounding, and he brings a long coding history that began on MS-DOS in 2005. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates cutting-edge research into robust engineering artifacts and reproducible evaluations.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of HamburgBachelor of Science - B.Sc. Technische Informatik, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc. Technische Informatik at Technische Hochschule UlmAssistent für Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik (AIK) + Fachhochschulreife, Assistent für Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik (AIK) + Fachhochschulreife at NTA Isny
Github Skills (200)
transformers10
opensearch10
language-model10
web-application10
python10
nearest-neighbors10
dialog10
deep-learning10
elasticsearch10
migrate10
clustering10
ai10
transformer10
gpt10
nlp10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
uhh-lt/NLP_ThumbnailAnnotator
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
M.Sc. Project in Language Technology at Uni Hamburg from Florian Schneider
Contributions:33 PRs, 90 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 4 months
nlphamburglanguage-technologyuninatural-language-processing
floschne/webanno
Jun 2019 - Feb 2021
The Official WebAnno Repository
Contributions:143 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
web-appjavascriptwebapp
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