Thor Olesen
Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolThor Olesen is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building distributed systems, ML pipelines, and language-driven tooling across Go, Scala, and Python. He has shipped production services at scale—designing connectors and context pipelines for search and AI at Dropbox, and driving forecasting and recommendation systems at Microsoft and The Org. Comfortable spanning research and product, Thor's background includes PhD-level work in programming languages and quantum computing alongside hands-on ML engineering that increased engagement and scaled data throughput by orders of magnitude. He thrives in teams that value autonomy and deep focus, owning problems end-to-end from data ingestion and model training to containerized deployment and CI/CD. Based in Copenhagen, he pairs academic rigor with practical impact—often turning probabilistic and graph techniques into reliable, production-ready features.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad Computer Science, Study Abroad Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at IT-Universitetet i KøbenhavnHigh School Matematik A Engelsk A Samfundsfag B, High School Matematik A Engelsk A Samfundsfag B at Nærum AmtsgymnasiumUniversity of California, Los AngelesBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Software Engineering at Auckland University of Technology
English, Danish, French, German
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Github Skills (22)
rust8
compiler6
getusermedia6
standard-library5
webcam5
rust-lang5
crate4
react4
rust-language4
jupyterlab-extension3
garbage-collection3
sagemaker2
jupyterlab2
jupyter2
python2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TVAO/tvao.github.io
Aug 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:43 PRs, 56 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 7 months
BDSA-2015/AutosysProgram
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:37 PRs, 208 pushes, 101 branches in 1 month
python
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