Ulf Ekström
AI Tech Lead Chief Scientific Software Developer at Bluware
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolUlf Ekström is an AI tech lead and chief scientific software developer based in Oslo with 16 years blending academic rigor and industry impact, currently steering scientific software and AI efforts at Bluware. He brings deep expertise in applied mathematics, automatic differentiation and convex optimization from a decade of quantum chemistry research and a PhD in computational physics. Ulf excels at translating complex numerical methods into user-friendly, cloud-native tools—building scientific computing workflows that prioritize collaboration and usability. His career spans HPC system administration to integrating C++ automatic differentiation libraries into commercial quantum chemistry codes, reflecting both low-level performance skills and product-minded engineering. Colleagues value his knack for making opaque systems comprehensible and practical, and his background supervising PhD work and teaching suggests strong mentorship and technical leadership abilities.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Physics at Linköping University
English, Swedish, German
Stackoverflow
145reputation
9kreached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (27)
dft10
correlation10
exchange-correlation-functionals10
exchange9
automatic-differentiation9
points8
geology6
class-library6
fortran6
ram6
linux6
differentiation6
geophysics5
boundaries5
python5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uekstrom/libtaylor
Jan 2012 - Nov 2019
Automatic differentiation in C++
Contributions:20 commits, 5 PRs, 17 pushes in 7 years 11 months
differentiationautomatic-differentiation
uekstrom/gh-greets-qt
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
GH Actions greets a Qt based project using CMake and CMakeIFW
Contributions:23 pushes in 1 month
cppcmakegh-actionsqt
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