Summary
Joachim Bingel is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist with 12 years of experience specializing in NLP, currently driving applied research at Zendesk after leading data science at Podimo. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen and built a career bridging academic research—focused on personalized and adaptive text simplification—with product-first ML engineering and consultancy for government and industry. Joachim has founded and scaled NLP products through Cleartext and Lingtec Consulting, shipping APIs and specialized algorithms for real-world language tasks. His background includes corpus-scale processing at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache and hands-on research internships at Amazon and Sheffield, giving him rare depth across large-scale data, research rigor, and production deployment. Colleagues know him for turning the messiness of text into reliable systems that serve users, often by blending linguistic insight with pragmatic engineering.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
Master of Arts (M.A.) Computational Linguistics, Master of Arts (M.A.) Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University
Computational Linguistics, Computational Linguistics at Uppsala University
English, German, Swedish, Catalan, Spanish, Danish