Erik Bernhardsson
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarErik Bernhardsson is the CEO and founder of Modal, a runtime that automates containerization, deployment, scaling and resource management so data teams can easily run GPU models, scheduled jobs and large fan-out workloads. He previously served as CTO of Better, scaling the engineering organization from a single engineer to about 300, and spent seven years at Spotify building the Discovery team and its music recommender system while releasing influential OSS like Luigi and Annoy. A hands-on leader with an M.Sc. in physics, he continues to contribute to core projects (improving Annoy’s accuracy and test infrastructure) and ships practical examples that bridge ML, infra and web apps. An IOI gold medalist and author of an award-winning master’s thesis, he writes regularly about technology and management from New York.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (49)
repositorypattern10
unit-testing10
git10
benchmark10
c-language10
python10
nearest-neighbors10
benchmarks10
testing10
packaging10
statistics10
machine-learning10
benchmarking10
modal-window10
modals10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
erikbern/ann-benchmarks
Jun 2015 - Feb 2022
Benchmarks of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 366 commits, 294 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Erik contributed to the development of approximate nearest neighbor libraries benchmarked in Python. They made improvements to the plotting functionality and optimized the memory usage by running algorithms in subprocesses. Furthermore, the user integrated the KGraph library and created an install script. They also worked on improving the documentation with links to the different libraries.
pythonnearest-neighbornearestdockerbenchmark
erikbern/git-of-theseus
Dec 2016 - Sep 2022
Analyze how a Git repo grows over time
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 82 commits, 54 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Erik contributed significantly to the project, evidenced by the creation of a dedicated executable and setup.py, indicating a focus on project structure and packaging. They also introduced author analysis and file type filtering, expanding the scope of the analysis. Moreover, the user implemented improvements to the user interface and overall improvements and fixes.
pythongit-reporepository-managementanalyzeauthor-statistics
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