Toby Pohlen
Founding Member at xAI
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Pohlen is a research engineer and founding member at xAI with 12 years of experience applying machine learning and computer vision to large-scale research problems. He progressed through multiple roles at DeepMind—contributing to serving and evaluation tools for LLMs, co-authoring the Computer Control paper, and building scalable RL systems such as the AlphaStar League evaluation and Ape-X DQfD. Grounded in a Master’s in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen, he blends deep theoretical knowledge with practical systems engineering, shipping production-grade tooling for research at cloud scale. Toby’s background spans academic teaching and early web engineering, reflecting an unusual combination of pedagogy, low-level engineering, and cutting-edge ML research. He is London-based and brings both hands-on coding discipline and tech leadership to nascent AI ventures.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
English, German
Github Skills (20)
pytorch10
python10
theano10
data-science9
expressions9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
mathematical-expressions8
jax8
pymc8
mathematical8
neural-network7
livekit6
webrtc5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TobyPDE/FRRN
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:49 commits, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
TobyPDE/libjungle
May 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:63 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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