Magnus Persson
Head Of Data Science & Analytics
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolMagnus Persson is Head of Data Science & Analytics with 13 years of experience turning complex data into production-ready ML solutions for the real-estate sector. He leads AVM modelling, MLOps and governance at Värderingsdata, bridging research-grade methods with business requirements and representing the company in the European AVM Alliance. His background in astrophysics and open-source contributions to astroquery reflect strong algorithmic instincts and a talent for structuring messy, observational data into reproducible pipelines. Magnus combines hands-on skills in ETL, feature strategy and model validation with team leadership and stakeholder-facing explanation of model behavior. He mentors MSc students and co-authored Mastering Python Data Analysis, evidencing a commitment to knowledge sharing and applied education. Notably, he won the Halland regional Prompt Engineering Championship 2025, highlighting an ongoing interest in practical LLM and AI tooling.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Astronomy, Astronomy at Saltsjöbadens GymnasiumDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astronomy at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenM.Sc Astronomy, M.Sc Astronomy at Stockholm University
Swedish, German, English, Romanian
Stackoverflow
822reputation
32kreached
14answers
10questions
Github Skills (16)
astropy10
api10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development9
mechanize8
astronomy7
plotly-dash6
callback6
multiprocessing6
pandas6
logging6
axes6
joblib6
dataframe6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astroquery
Dec 2012 - Jun 2015
Functions and classes to access online data resources. Maintainers: @keflavich and @bsipocz and @ceb8
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 3 PRs, 19 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Magnus focused on adding and refining the Splatalogue search API within the `astroquery` repository. This involved creating initial files and a directory for the API, along with various tweaks and fixes to the core functionality. The user implemented the necessary form interaction for the Splatalogue service and structured the results in an astropy.table format.
pythondataastropy-affiliatedastropyastronomy
vilhelmp/adapy
Nov 2012 - Oct 2017
Contributions:181 commits, 5 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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