Jacob Vestergaard
ML Engineering Manager at Schack V
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Vestergaard is an ML engineering manager with 12 years of experience building teams and production-ready machine learning for image and video understanding, currently leading Photos-related efforts at Apple. He holds a PhD in mathematical image analysis and has applied statistical and ML methods to diverse domains—from graphene and stem cells to poison dart frogs and cancer histology—bringing a rare blend of academic rigor and product focus. At Apple he has progressed from computational imaging manager to senior ML engineering manager, driving personalized, privacy-preserving solutions for large personal media libraries. He also maintains hands-on data science work with CloudCutout and runs long-term creative projects under his own studio, evidencing both entrepreneurial and applied-research instincts. Known for turning information-rich but noisy visual data into actionable systems, he excels at scaling detection, tracking and curation pipelines while mentoring cross-functional teams. Based in Copenhagen, he combines deep statistical training (MSc/PhD) with practical experience shipping consumer-facing ML at scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Training Ship "Denmark"Postgraduate Time Series Analysis, Postgraduate Time Series Analysis at Macquarie UniversityTechnical University of Denmark
Github Skills (8)
neural-network10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
python10
data-science9
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
schackv/graphene
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:28 commits in 3 months
schackv/cia
Aug 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 1 push in 1 year
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