Jonathan Fraine
Head Of Engineering And Co-Head Of Software Development at Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolJonathan Fraine is a Head of Engineering and AI leader based in Berlin with a decade of multidisciplinary experience bridging research-grade machine learning and production software for large-scale open knowledge systems and space science. He currently leads engineering and product teams at Wikimedia Deutschland to design federated, multilingual platforms for preserving and surfacing free knowledge while driving NLP, semantic web, and system architecture optimisation. Concurrently he applies advanced ML and computer vision to exoplanet atmosphere extraction and space telescope calibration at the Space Science Institute, turning thousands of images and time series into robust scientific signals. Past startup work includes end-to-end IoT, MLOps and regulatory-grade product delivery for eldercare, demonstrating a rare combination of hardware, cloud, and ML productionisation expertise. He also volunteers as an educator, running data science bootcamps for underrepresented communities, and his background in astrophysics and applied mathematics informs a data-first, instrument-aware approach to engineering problems. Not obviously, his career threads—from JWST instrument calibration to Wikimedia’s semantic web—reflect a consistent focus on extracting signal from complex, noisy data at planetary and planetary-scale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astronomy at University of MarylandAssociate of Arts (A.A.) Philosophy, Associate of Arts (A.A.) Philosophy at Edison State Community CollegeMaster of Science (M.S.) Applied Mathematics, Master of Science (M.S.) Applied Mathematics at University of Central Florida
Spanish, Arabic, German, English
Github Skills (200)
python10
deep-learning10
gtk10
qt10
autoencoder10
ml10
least-squares10
neural-network10
data-science10
tensorflow10
pytorch10
matplotlib10
machine-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
os-agnostic10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
exowanderer/svo_filters
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
A Python wrapper for the SVO Filter Profile Service
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
pythonsvgpython-wrappersvofilter
exowanderer/POET
Nov 2018 - Oct 2021
POET pipeline for reduction of Spitzer data
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 10 months
reductionpoetspitzerpipeline
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