Tobias Renwick
Data Scientist
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Renwick is a data scientist and code-first researcher with nine years of experience specializing in Natural Language Processing, semantic search, and scalable text analytics. He combines industry experience at Scotiabank working with massive text corpora and cloud tooling (GCP, Spark, Airflow, JupyterHub) with academic research developing fast vector search methods—his MS work on DFx leverages popcount optimizations to speed semantic similarity without dimensionality reduction. Tobias has taught and built course and lab infrastructure for computer science programs, deployed auto-grading systems, and runs a small consultancy delivering web services and technical solutions. Comfortable across ML stacks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, pandas) and distributed systems, he brings practical engineering chops from low-level optimization to production pipelines and a longstanding interest in consensus protocols and systems design.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0 at University of AlbertaBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.98, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.98 at MacEwan University
English, French
Github Skills (42)
todoist10
coc-nvim10
language-server-protocol9
vim-plugin9
vim9
neovim-plugin9
mercurial8
nvim8
git-mirror8
mozilla8
lua8
neovim8
gecko8
nodejs8
snow7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
qubies/speed_reader
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 70 pushes in 1 year
qubies/o_norm
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 5 pushes in 1 month
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