Leon Luithlen
Founder at sistemalabs
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolLeon Luithlen is a Machine Learning Engineer and founder based in Berlin with eight years of experience building production ML systems at scale, including a multilingual recommender serving ~5 million users. He led development and infrastructure for a large codebase—covering modelling with PyTorch and LightFM, FastAPI services, CI/CD, Docker, Terraform and AWS—while shaping product roadmap and mentoring engineers. Leon now focuses on foundation models for non-language data at his startup, bringing an experimental psychology background to bridge human-centered design and ML. He has a history of pragmatic, structured engineering (RfCs, clean MRs) and a taste for crafting bespoke tooling, such as a Scala ML framework and custom KNN implementations.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
European Baccaleaureate, European Baccaleaureate at École Européenne de Bruxelles IIIBachelor of Science (BSc) Experimental Psychology and Philosophy, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Experimental Psychology and Philosophy at University of Bristol
German, French, English
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Github Skills (39)
vector-database10
graph-database10
neo4j10
knowledge-graph10
openai10
ai10
chatgpt9
graphql9
cli8
keras8
open-source8
interoperability7
command-line7
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
0xideas/100gecs
Jul 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:67 PRs, 79 pushes, 55 branches in 6 months
0xideas/ada
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:244 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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