Linda Freienthal
Senior ML Scientist at Zendesk
Tartu, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolLinda Freienthal is a Senior ML Scientist based in Tartu, Estonia with eight years of experience building production-grade NLP solutions across industry and academia. She has led 17+ NLP projects spanning text classification, entity extraction and linking, anonymization, HS-code allocation, chatbot development, and bespoke language tooling such as an Estonian Snowball stemmer. Comfortable with large, messy datasets and SaaS model pipelines, she pairs hands-on experimentation with rigorous model validation and dataset management. Her work bridges research and product — from prototyping cutting-edge neural approaches to stabilizing models in deployed systems. Regularly teaching programming at Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkool and contributing to multilingual tooling (Texta Toolkit, texta-mlp) highlights her commitment to developer-facing ML engineering and language technology for under-resourced languages.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computational Linguistics, cum laude, Master's degree, Computational Linguistics, cum laude at University of Tartu
Estonian, English, Finnish, Hungarian
Github Skills (40)
regl8
jupyter-notebook8
snowball8
interactive8
visualization8
plotly8
stemming7
webgl7
dashboard7
jupyter-widget7
graph7
ipywidgets7
rasa-nlu7
python7
pyodide6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
texta-tk/est-snowball
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 7 months
Lindafr/Asenduss6nadeAnalysaator
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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