Zarah Weiss
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Nextory
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolZarah Weiss is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in Stockholm with a PhD in Computational Linguistics and a decade of experience turning NLP research into production-grade ML and agentic systems. She has led personalization and synthetic metadata pipelines at Nextory, building an agentic recommender and orchestration patterns that balance speed, reliability, and measurable business impact. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, she combines deep language-technology expertise with strong engineering practices (TDD, MLOps/AgentOps) and a track record of mentoring teams and shaping long-term architecture. Zarah also brings a background in multilingual Java-based NLP tooling and education—she has taught computational linguistics and coordinated Erasmus+ programs—so she naturally blends technical leadership with programmatic and cross-cultural collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics at University of Tübingen
German, Italian, English
Github Skills (13)
flair7
language-learning7
multilingual6
digital-humanities6
tuple6
retrieval5
question-answering5
java5
nlp5
search-engine4
python4
information-retrieval3
natural-language-processing3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zweiss/multilingual-ctap-feature
Dec 2018 - Jul 2019
Extension of ctapweb to support multilingual analyses
Contributions:12 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
multilingualanalyses
zweiss/zweiss.github.io
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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