Norman Casagrande
Staff Research Engineer at DeepMind
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNorman Casagrande is a Staff Research Engineer in San Francisco with 18 years of experience applying machine learning to large-scale NLP, text-to-speech, and recommendation systems. At DeepMind and previously Google and Last.fm, he has built production-grade, highly scalable real-time services and pioneered components like WaveNet-based TTS and large language model deployments. He writes elegant, performance-focused C++ and Python code, is fluent with TensorFlow and JAX, and has a track record of turning research into robust systems for high-volume processing. His background includes MLSci studies at Université de Montréal and foundational work in MIR, fingerprinting, and custom databases for fast access. Colleagues know him for making things both fast and beautiful technically, and for preferring in-person professional connections.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science and Machine Learning, Master of Science, Computer Science and Machine Learning at Université de MontréalMedieBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at University of Applied Sciences Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
Italian, English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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tensorflow
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Github Skills (141)
displays10
python10
jdownloader10
deep-learning10
unlock10
cdr10
synology10
ml10
neural-network10
data-science10
tensorflow10
nas10
compilation10
machine-learning10
driver10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lastfm/Fingerprinter
Oct 2007 - Jul 2010
Last.fm Fingerprint Library and Sample Client
Contributions:121 commits in 2 years 9 months
fingerprintlast-fmunlock
nova77/anki_japanese
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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