Marc Romeyn
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at NVIDIA
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Romeyn is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade recommendation and large-scale deep learning systems, currently contributing to NVIDIA Merlin and Transformers4Rec for GPU-accelerated recsys. Previously a core contributor to Spotify's centralized ML platform and an Entrepreneur First alum who co-founded Manner.ai, he combines product-minded engineering with research-driven modeling. His work spans PyTorch/TensorFlow integrations, sequence masking and data augmentation for recommendations, and engineering at scale using Spark, Airflow and Kubernetes. Based in Stockholm, he bridges academia and industry with master's training in distributed and data-intensive systems and a practical knack for refactoring complex ML codebases to improve maintainability and performance.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, EIT Digital Master School - Data Intensive Computing, B, Master’s Degree, EIT Digital Master School - Data Intensive Computing, B at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster’s Degree, EIT Digital Master School - Distributed Systems and Services, 2.0, Master’s Degree, EIT Digital Master School - Distributed Systems and Services, 2.0 at Technische Universität BerlinHigh School, VWO - Natuur & Techniek, High School, VWO - Natuur & Techniek at Berger Scholen GemeenschapEIT Master SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Knowledge Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Knowledge Engineering at Maastricht University
German, English, Dutch
Github Skills (10)
transformers10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
recommendation-system10
python10
api-design9
ml9
data-augmentation9
mle9
nlp8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NVIDIA-Merlin/Transformers4Rec
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Transformers4Rec is a flexible and efficient library for sequential and session-based recommendation and works with PyTorch.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Back-end Developer & ML EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 174 commits, 29 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily focused on refactoring and porting code related to masking sequences and data augmentation within the `transformers4rec` library. Their contributions involved renaming files, restructuring modules, and integrating new features like StochasticSwapNoise. Additionally, the user worked on core aspects, including the implementation of tabular features, model configurations, and improvements to the API. This suggests a focus on expanding the capabilities and maintainability of the library for recommendation tasks, with an emphasis on PyTorch-based functionality.
xlnetbertlanguage-modelseq2seqrecommendation
NVIDIA-Merlin/models
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Merlin Models is a collection of deep learning recommender system model reference implementations
Contributions:301 reviews, 458 commits, 281 PRs in 1 year 6 months
pytorchimplementationsrecommenderdeep-learninggpu
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