Jeffrey Thompson
Senior Staff Vision Development Engineer at Tesla
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolJeffrey Thompson is a Senior Staff Vision Development Engineer based in Palo Alto with 12 years of experience translating advanced vision science and machine learning into production systems for industrial and manufacturing settings. He has led and scaled teams at Bosch’s AI center and now drives vision inspection and battery cell manufacturing initiatives at Tesla, coupling deep academic roots (PhD in Vision Science from UC Berkeley) with hands-on algorithm and embedded-system expertise from earlier roles. His background spans neuroimaging and sensor development to real-time detection algorithms for radiation and cargo screening, giving him a rare ability to bridge fundamental research, hardware-constrained inference, and large-scale production deployment. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns complex signal-processing insights into robust, manufacturable solutions that reduce false positives and improve system sensitivity.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Vision Science (Visual & Computational Neuroscience), PhD, Vision Science (Visual & Computational Neuroscience) at University of California, BerkeleyBS, Applied and Engineering Physics, BS, Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University
Github Skills (31)
apache-spark10
python10
machine-learning-models10
lifecycle10
incremental-learning10
machine-learning10
mlflow10
model-management10
dvc10
ai10
cpp10
ml9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
image-data9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jkthompson/pyspark-pictures
Jan 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:55 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
jkthompson/covid-19-plots
May 2020 - Jan 2021
compare COVID-19 case trends by US county
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
trendscounty
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