Summary
Thomson Kneeland is a Lead AI/ML Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building production-grade automation and LLM-driven, agentic systems for financial services. He has driven high-impact platform modernization at Schonfeld—scaling reporting throughput 12x and building custom load-balancing to move to near real-time delivery—and now architects AI solutions for CIB and WIM operations at Wells Fargo. His background spans greenfield payments and settlement systems at Deutsche Bank, ML-powered anomaly detection for regulatory reporting, and quantitative pricing engines for complex derivatives, giving him rare fluency across data, finance, and ML. Trained in computer science and statistics and with a parallel career as a professional jazz entrepreneur, he brings disciplined engineering, creativity, and a knack for operationalizing sophisticated models under tight SLAs.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science/Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science/Statistics at Montclair State University
Data Science Specialization - Johns Hopkins University, Data Science Specialization - Johns Hopkins University at Coursera
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Music, Music at New England Conservatory of Music
Worcester Academy