Nils Schimmelmann
Director, Product Management at Yahoo
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNils Schimmelmann is a product and engineering leader with 17 years of experience building large-scale personalization and applied ML platforms, currently directing product management for Yahoo’s content personalization serving 900 million users. He combines hands-on technical depth—reinforcing recommender systems, real-time inference, and MLOps—with cross-organizational leadership to navigate privacy, compliance, and instrumentation at scale. His teams have driven measurable gains (e.g., double-digit CTR and engagement improvements and revenue uplift) by applying deep learning, collaborative filtering, NLP, and graph-based crawling. Nils has a strong research and data background (MS in Bioinformatics) and early work in bioinformatics and information extraction informs his rigorous approach to feature engineering and model evaluation. Known as a technologist and tinkerer outside work, he balances family life and wide-ranging curiosities—from Tolkien lore to hands-on prototypes—that keep his product thinking creative and user-centered.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS Bioinformatics, MS Bioinformatics at Indiana University Bloomington
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Github Skills (166)
bulbs10
mud10
python10
home-assistant-integration10
automation10
home-assistant10
catalog10
mqtt10
text-based10
ipc10
controlling10
camera10
mapper10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
MUME/play-mume
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
Modern web client for MUME using DecafMUD
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 4 PRs in 3 years 7 months
nschimme/MMapper
Jan 2015 - Jul 2020
MMapper is a mud mapper especially written for the mud MUME (mume.org), combining the UI, network and storage modules from caligor's mmapper1 (mmapper.czechian.net) with the auto-mapping engine of alve's expandora (sf.net/projects/expandora).
Contributions:12 releases, 52 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 6 months
mumemudmappingmapperstorage
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