Timo Petmanson
Software Engineer at Kaval AI
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
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Top SchoolTimo Petmanson is a software engineer and data scientist with 13+ years of hands-on experience building data-driven systems, applied research tools, and production-grade AI services. He has moved between startups and tech giants—contributing to ads quality at Google, architecting near-real-time analytics at Veriff, and extracting web-scale information with NLP at Venturebeam. Currently he leads development and product strategy as CEO and lead developer of Kaval AI, shipping an agent SDK and platform while advising on AI adoption. His background in academic NLP (estnltk) and medical information extraction gives him uncommon depth in language technologies for smaller languages. Comfortable across Python, C++, Spark and cloud data stacks, he blends research curiosity with pragmatic engineering to turn complex pipelines into reliable products. Based in Tallinn, he pairs a University of Tartu master’s in computer science with a track record of shipping end-to-end analytics and ML systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Tartu
English, Estonian, German
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Github Skills (54)
artificial-intelligence10
named-entity-recognition10
arabic-nlp10
entity-linking10
text-classification10
language-processing10
data-preprocessing10
spacy10
neural10
natural-language-processing10
fairness-ml10
cython10
nlp10
corenlp10
turkish10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tpetmanson/petmanson.com
Jun 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
estnltk/pyvabamorf
Jun 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:1 release, 47 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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