Thomas Koentges
Chief Data Officer
Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand
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Top SchoolThomas Koentges is a Chief Data Officer and founder with over a decade combining academic rigour in digital humanities with applied AI and HR-focused data products. He leads data strategy at gradar and Sysarb while running You Say Data, translating generative AI, NLP, and gender pay gap analytics into practical upskilling and decision‑making tools for NGOs, businesses, and research teams. A former Assistant Professor and long-term fellow at Harvard CHS, he has deep expertise in historical language processing and computational analysis of morphologically complex languages, a rare bridge between classical philology and modern data science. His background includes a PhD in Classics and a postgraduate certificate in Applied AI, reflecting a trajectory from manuscript transmission and digital stemmatology to production ML systems for HR. Notably, he applies scholarly methods—careful provenance, annotation, and interpretability—to make ML outputs auditable and ethically grounded.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Science, Artificial Intelligence, Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Science, Artificial Intelligence at University of OtagoAllgemeine Hochschulreife, Allgemeine Hochschulreife at Städtisches Görres-GymnasiumMaster of Arts (M.A.), Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Master of Arts (M.A.), Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Universität Leipzig / University of Leipzig
German, English, Latin, Greek, Italian, akkadian, maori
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Github Skills (45)
latent-semantic-indexing10
xml10
linked-open-data9
lda9
historical9
latent-semantic-analysis9
lsa9
tf-idf9
lsh9
simhash9
cts9
locality-sensitive-hashing8
svd8
latin8
latent-dirichlet-allocation7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ThomasK81/thomask81.github.io
Aug 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
ThomasK81/TEItoCEX
May 2020 - Jun 2021
Turn CTS TEI corpora into CEX collection files
Contributions:1 release, 36 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 1 month
teicexcorporacts
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