Thomas Buhrmann
Lead Data Scientist & Senior AI Engineer
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Buhrmann is a Lead Data Scientist and Senior AI Engineer based in Madrid with 13 years of industry experience and a 15+ year trajectory across academia and game AI. He designs and ships LLM-powered data products and structured-output pipelines, authoring Cuery (Python) and CueryJS to enable robust prompting over tabular data with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. His background spans computational neuroscience, evolutionary optimization, and real-time character AI shipped in major AAA titles, giving him a rare blend of theoretical rigor and production-grade engineering. Thomas leads ML engineering end-to-end—from automated ingestion and feature engineering to natural language interfaces and full-stack AI applications—while mentoring teams to operationalize research. Notably, he has bridged academic modelling of neural control with commercial generative-AI products, demonstrating a consistent focus on interpretable, structured outputs.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Neuroinformatics, Neuroinformatics at Ruhr University BochumPhD, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, PhD, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at University of SussexSemester abroad, Artificial Intelligence, Semester abroad, Artificial Intelligence at University of UlsterBSc, Cognitive Science, BSc, Cognitive Science at Universität Osnabrück
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
language-model10
sentence10
arabic-nlp10
data-manipulation10
topological-data-analysis10
cpp10
dimensionality-reduction10
data-preprocessing10
corenlp10
nlp10
sentence-embeddings10
in-memory10
data-science10
text-classification10
roberta10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
graphext/spacymoji
Nov 2018 - Apr 2021
💙 Emoji handling and meta data for spaCy with custom extension attributes
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 5 months
nlpemojimetameta-dataspacy
buhrmann/buhrmann.github.io
Oct 2014 - Oct 2017
Contributions:65 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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