Sebastian Björkqvist
Head Of Machine Learning at IPRally
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Björkqvist is Head of Machine Learning based in Helsinki with a decade of experience building and leading AI teams focused on deep learning, information retrieval, NLP and language modeling. He progressed from hands-on research engineer to AI Team Lead and now heads ML at IPRally, translating academic rigor from his M.Sc. into production-ready models and pipelines. His background includes founding-level technical leadership as CTO at Valuatum, giving him a rare blend of product sensibility and research-first thinking. Known for shepherding projects from prototype to deployed service, he thrives at the intersection of applied research and commercial IP-driven products. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic model selection, scalable retrieval architectures, and mentoring engineers to bridge theory and engineering.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Master of Science (M.Sc.) at University of Helsinki
Github Skills (47)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
gpu10
numpy9
acceleration9
autograd9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
tensor9
gpu-acceleration9
jquery-ui8
glove8
out-of-memory8
twitter-bootstrap8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
iprally/qhadamw-pytorch
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
ousou/pomodoro-timer
Apr 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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