Johannes Gontrum
Co-Founder at Garbo AI
Uppsala, Sweden
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Top SchoolJohannes Gontrum is a Co-Founder and AI specialist with 11 years of experience bridging computational linguistics research and product-grade language AI. He builds and scales NLP-driven products—most recently co-founding Qallio, an AI receptionist platform, while also contributing as Senior AI Developer at Garbo AI and working as an independent NLP/LLM consultant. His background includes deep academic work on parsing and automata (a 260x optimization in tree automata intersection) and hands-on engineering from startups to enterprise integrations. Johannes combines research rigor from his studies in Computational Linguistics and a Master’s in Language Technology with repeated founder experience, shipping multilingual, production-ready automation for SMEs. He’s comfortable moving between low-level algorithmic improvements and applied LLM solutions, which makes him effective at turning language research into tangible products. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, he has a track record of launching teams and products that operationalize advanced language tech.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computational Linguistics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computational Linguistics at University of PotsdamMaster's degree, Language Technology, Master's degree, Language Technology at Uppsala University
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (179)
docker-container10
cython10
api10
nlp10
natural-language-processing10
transition10
docker10
restful-api10
spacy10
parsing10
bilstm9
rest9
data-preprocessing9
neural9
corenlp9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jgontrum/connexion-cookiecutter
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
Template for building micro service APIs with Connexion, deployed via Docker and running with uWSGI & NGINX.
Contributions:28 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
nginxmicro-servicedockeruwsgidocker-compose
jgontrum/parseridge
Feb 2019 - Jan 2020
Parseridge: A Transition-based Dependency Parser
Contributions:234 commits, 14 PRs, 30 pushes in 11 months
parser-generatordependency-parsertransitionparser
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