Thomas Buhrmann
Product Senior Expert at Graphext
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)
projection10
sentence10
python10
emoji10
entity-linking10
topological-data-analysis10
deep-learning10
cython10
parquet10
approximation10
markdown10
dimensionality-reduction10
pandas10
audio10
progress-bar10
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
graphext/lector
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:90 commits, 76 pushes, 48 tags in 7 months
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