Lukas Weidenholzer
Machine Learning Engineer at Canva
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Weidenholzer is a Machine Learning Engineer based in Vienna with 10 years of experience building production-ready ML systems and cloud-native infrastructure. Currently at Canva, he blends hands-on model development (PyTorch, NLP, RL) with strong DevOps practices—Kubernetes admin, GitOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code—to deploy scalable data services. His background includes processing large satellite datasets at EODC with xarray/dask and containerised OpenEO APIs, and earlier work on news clustering and experiment validation at Echobox. Trained in AI (MSc St Andrews) and briefly pursuing a PhD, he pairs research fluency with pragmatic engineering and a fascination for AI alignment and long-term thinking. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful, future-oriented solutions that bridge model research and reliable production deployments.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Artificial Intelligence Computer Science, MSc Artificial Intelligence Computer Science at University of St AndrewsAustrian Matura and International Baccalaureate, Austrian Matura and International Baccalaureate at Linz International School Auhof (LISA)University College London
German, English
Github Skills (57)
graph-algorithms10
network-analysis9
earth-observation9
graph-analysis9
python9
graph-visualization9
python-client9
earth9
graph-theory9
complex-networks9
api8
observation8
api-client8
jekyll7
insar7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
codeatlasHQ/codebase-visualizer-action
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
Open-EO/openeo-processes-dask
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Python implementations of many OpenEO processes, dask-friendly by default.
Contributions:21 releases, 76 reviews, 79 commits in 6 months
implementationsopeneopythondask
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