Thomas Almenningen
Staff AI ML Engineer at Block
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolThomas Almenningen is a Senior Staff AI/ML Engineer with 12 years of experience building and shipping customer-facing ML systems, currently leading ML efforts at Block after previously heading TIDAL's ML team. He specializes in large-scale recommender systems, end-to-end MLOps, big data processing on AWS, experimentation, and Java backend development, and has driven algorithmic playlists to become one of TIDAL’s largest playback sources. Thomas combines hands-on engineering with people leadership—managing distributed teams of MLEs and SWEs and shaping ML strategy while representing teams at conferences. His background includes international consulting experience in Bangalore and Copenhagen and a strong academic foundation (MSc in Intelligent Systems, Udacity ML Engineer program), reflecting a pragmatic blend of research-informed methods and production-grade delivery.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Gjøvik University College (HiG)Machine Learning Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer at UdacityNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (17)
sqoop6
hadoop6
recommendation-system3
pytorch3
netflix3
codebase1
machine-learning1
gradient1
transformers1
gradient-descent1
word2vec1
transformer1
gpt1
nlp1
deep-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thomalm/presentations
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:48 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
thomalm/svhn-multi-digit
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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