Tilmann Bruckhaus
Director Of Engineering, AI And Signals at ACM, Association for Computing Machinery
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTilmann Bruckhaus is a seasoned AI and data engineering leader based in San Francisco with over two decades of experience and 12 years in senior engineering roles driving ML and signals platforms. As Director of Engineering, AI and Signals at Credit Karma he builds production-grade ML systems for real-world financial products, drawing on prior leadership roles at Instrumental, Banjo, Intuit and Eventbrite. He has a track record of scaling teams and infrastructure—from edge computer vision for manufacturing defects to real-time data lakes processing trillions of events—and improving operational rigor, incident response and release velocity. Tilmann combines deep academic training (MSc and PhD in Computer Science) with hands-on product delivery, including founding startups that shipped NLP, social graph and risk-modeling services. He frequently contributes to the AI research community as a long-time SIGKDD committee member and session chair, bridging research and production. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who turns complex ML research into reliable, auditable systems that drive measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule AachenPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at McGill University
German, English
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Github Skills (6)
java7
python7
data-structures7
ruby6
sidekiq6
jruby3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bruckhaus/challenges
Jun 2014 - Nov 2020
Coding Challenges
Contributions:384 commits, 133 PRs, 245 pushes in 6 years 6 months
javadata-structurespython
bruckhaus/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:15 PRs, 44 pushes, 17 branches in 10 years 3 months
setupsdotconfigsdot-filesdotfiles
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