Summary
Tammo Rukat is an AI research leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building production-grade machine learning systems and leading science teams across startups and large tech. As Co-Founder and CTO of IvyCheck and formerly an Applied Science manager at Amazon, he has driven algorithmic improvements on the global search page and shipped models that materially affected customer engagement and revenue. He combines deep academic rigor—a PhD from Oxford with publications in ML, statistics and medical imaging—with hands-on engineering, having open-sourced data quality tools used broadly at Amazon. Tammo is skilled at translating probabilistic and unsupervised research into scalable inference and ML infrastructure, and he has experience securing YC-backed funding and operating at the intersection of product and research. Based in Berlin, he brings an unusual blend of biomedical, physics and philosophical training that informs pragmatic, human-centered AI solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Evangelische Schule Frohnau
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics and Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics and Machine Learning at University of Oxford
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Physics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Physics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
No degree Humanmedizin, No degree Humanmedizin at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Y Combinator
Medical Physics DCE-MRI, Medical Physics DCE-MRI at The University of British Columbia
English, German, Latin, Spanish, French