John Pertoft
Senior AI ML Research Engineer at King
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolJohn Pertoft is a Senior AI/ML Research Engineer based in Stockholm with 12 years of experience building and productionizing machine learning systems across news media, online marketplaces, gaming, and multimedia. With an M.Sc. in Computer Science from KTH, he blends applied R&D and engineering—shipping NLP, computer vision, recommendation, and generative models in production at companies like Schibsted, Vionlabs, Embark Studios and King. He has hands-on expertise with deep generative models (VAEs, GANs), evolutionary algorithms, and signal-processing-informed ML, and a track record of moving proofs-of-concept into robust systems. Interested in PhD opportunities, he combines practical product focus with research curiosity and routinely bridges academic techniques and scalable engineering. An understated strength is his cross-domain fluency—adapting methods from music signal processing to game level generation and news personalization.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyInformation Technology, Information Technology at Stockholm University
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (73)
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ui-components10
gradio-interface10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
johnPertoft/smile
Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 117 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
johnPertoft/dotfiles
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
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Contributions:3 PRs, 175 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
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