Tom Nickson
Electric Shepherd at Apple
Campbell, California, United States
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Top SchoolTom Nickson is an engineering leader and machine learning practitioner with 12 years of experience building reliable, high-performance systems—currently serving as "Electric Shepherd" at Apple in Campbell, CA. He combines academic rigor from a DPhil at Oxford, where he developed ML planning for uncertain environments, with hands-on product and startup experience as a Flood Network co-founder and multiple engineering internships. Tom has a track record of making "big things go fast and not break very much," focusing on scalable ML and systems work that bridges research and production. He’s comfortable both wrangling tensors and shipping resilient infrastructure, and brings a habit of turning complex academic ideas into pragmatic, operational solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering DPhil Candidate, Information Engineering, Engineering DPhil Candidate, Information Engineering at University of OxfordGCSE, A Level, GCSE, A Level at Saint Bartholomew's School, Newbury
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (121)
python10
deep-learning10
ml10
neural-network10
nlp10
data-science10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
stochastic-processes9
hopper9
utilization9
gpt9
transformer9
floating9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
c0g/FaceWarpApp
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:163 commits, 1 push in 6 months
c0g/llmem
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Contributions:10 releases, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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