Thor Whalen
Founder And Director Of AI at Figiri
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThor Whalen is a founder and AI leader with 13 years of experience building machine learning products from research to acquisition, including co-founding OtoSense and guiding its sale to Analog Devices. He combines deep technical chops in Python, signal ML and NLP with product and platform strategy—architecting ML frameworks, accelerating POCs, and shipping developer-friendly open-source tooling. At Figiri he now focuses on making LLM embedding spaces and vector databases explorable for non-developers and analysts, bridging complex AI internals with practical, visual workflows. His consulting work has repeatedly translated cutting-edge generative AI and RAG patterns into no-code and enterprise solutions, and he’s comfortable moving projects from prototype to deployed system. Trained as a mathematician with a PhD background and a history of patents and academic publications, he blends rigorous theory with hands-on engineering to solve real-world signal and language problems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Mathematics, Ph.D Mathematics at Emory UniversityExchange Student Mathematics, Exchange Student Mathematics at Technische Universität BerlinLicence de Mathématiques (M.S Math, Licence de Mathématiques (M.S Math at Université Côte d'Azur
English, French, Italian, German
Github Skills (197)
programming-language10
python10
statistics10
csv10
queue10
json10
callable10
recursive10
utilities10
monkey10
utility10
data-structures10
dtw9
code-generator9
yaml9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
i2mint/epythet
Aug 2020 - Jan 2025
Tools for documentation
Contributions:1 PR, 77 pushes, 7 comments in 4 years 6 months
thorwhalen/tapyoca
Jan 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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