Thomas Torsney-weir
Principal Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim
Austria
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Top SchoolThomas Torsney-weir is a Principal Scientist and seasoned computer scientist with 14 years of experience building systems from scratch and advancing ML/AI research focused on visual analysis in multi-dimensional continuous spaces and model interpretability. He blends industry-grade engineering—leading migrations from SAS to Python and Airflow and heading data science and developer experience teams—with deep academic credentials including a PhD in Computer Science. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, his open-source work ranges from improving the ieeevis.org site navigation to integrating Asana logs into Day One via Ruby plugins, reflecting a pragmatic, user-focused approach. A functional programming enthusiast, he actively explores Haskell and Purescript, bringing language-driven rigor to system design and tooling. Based in Austria, he moves fluidly between research and production, turning complex visual analytics problems into deployable solutions. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful architecture, reproducible workflows, and a knack for making intricate models understandable.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 1, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 1 at University of ViennaBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgetown UniversityMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (9)
html10
apim10
api10
front-end-development10
ruby10
web-development9
json9
ui-design7
user-interface7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ieee-vgtc/ieeevis.org
Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
Website for ieeevis.org
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 9 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on updating the website's sidebar, particularly for student volunteer information. Their work involved adding and correcting links to directories and application forms related to student volunteers. The changes directly impacted the navigation and information provided to users of the ieeevis.org website. This includes changes to the sidebar for the 2017 and 2018 years.
ttscoff/Slogger
Oct 2013 - Feb 2014
Social logging script for Day One
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the development of a plugin for logging Asana activity. This involved writing Ruby code to interact with the Asana API, retrieve tasks, and format the data for logging. Key contributions include implementing methods to fetch finished and added tasks, formatting task details, and integrating the data into a Day One journal entry. The user also refactored the code for efficiency and improved the logging workflow.
pythondayloggingday-one
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