Sönke Behrends
Machine Learning Engineer (Senior Staff Manager) at Qualcomm
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSönke Behrends is a senior staff Machine Learning Engineer and manager based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience bridging mathematical theory and production ML systems. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics (magna cum laude) and a strong background in physics, and has led Scrum teams and acted as product owner while building data warehouses, cloud microservices, and ML infrastructure for automotive and mobile platforms. At Qualcomm he advances applied ML at scale, drawing on deep expertise in optimization and algorithm design developed during his doctoral research. He is known for clear communication and teaching across technical levels, and for translating mathematically rigorous solutions into pragmatic, data-driven products. Unusually for someone at his level, he has hands-on experience from caring work early in his career, which informs his collaborative leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of WarwickDoctor of Philosophy (Dr. rer. nat.), Applied Mathematics, magna cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. rer. nat.), Applied Mathematics, magna cum laude at The University of Göttingen
German, English, French
Github Skills (200)
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sketch-app10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
phrase/homebrew-brewed
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Phrase Formula tap for brew, :beer: the missing package manager for OS X.
Contributions:2 reviews, 30 PRs, 45 pushes in 4 years 10 months
brewpackage-managermissingos-xphrase
theSoenke/go-coin
Jan 2018 - Jan 2024
Experimental Blockchain in Go
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 1 month
blockchaingolang
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