Tom Van Der Weide
Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolTom Van Der Weide is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable data and ML systems, currently at Google in Zurich. His background blends academic rigor—a PhD in AI on argumentative conversational agents—with hands-on engineering across streaming, Spark, Kafka, and cloud platforms. He has led teams and productionized ML pipelines at companies like Schibsted and Vistaprint, published workshop papers at NeurIPS and SIGMOD, and built high-performance synthetic clinical data generators for privacy-preserving benchmarking. Known for bridging research and production, he regularly presents on reinforcement learning and scalable ML pipelines and has a track record of initiating knowledge-sharing efforts such as Spark programming clubs.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Artificial Intelligence at Universiteit UtrechtMaster’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science, Master’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science at UvABachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science at Radboud University Nijmegen
English, Dutch, Spanish, German
Github Skills (6)
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
jax10
tensorflow10
numpy10
datasets10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
tomvdw/kaggle-springleaf
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:20 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
tomvdw/spark-utils
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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