Vilhjalmur Thorsteinsson
Chairman at Miðeind
Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland
Summary
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SeniorVilhjalmur Thorsteinsson is a veteran Icelandic technology entrepreneur and board leader with four decades of impact across software, telecom, IT, and gaming. He currently chairs Miðeind, a company he founded, steering AI and NLP for Icelandic and previously leading as CEO, blending rule-based and deep learning approaches. His career spans influential exits and leadership roles—from co-founding Iceland Software in 1983 and guiding its sale to CODA and later Baan, to guiding CCP Games and Verne Global as a board chairman and investor. He has helped shape national policy and governance, contributing to Iceland’s constitutional process and energy policy, while co-authoring NLP research published at ACL in 2023. An active open-source developer and GitHub contributor across Python, C++, and Golang, his work includes Tensor2Tensor Python 3 compatibility and public projects like Netskrafl.is, alongside a notable partnership with OpenAI to launch GPT-4 Icelandic support.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (11)
tensorflow210
tensorflow10
python10
unicode10
machine-learning9
data-engineering8
declaration6
go6
mmap6
exploit6
key-value6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tensorflow/tensor2tensor
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Library of deep learning models and datasets designed to make deep learning more accessible and accelerate ML research.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 9 PRs, 51 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Vilhjalmur primarily contributed to Python 3 compatibility fixes within the TensorFlow/Tensor2Tensor repository. They modified various Python files, including text\_encoder.py, tokenizer.py, and data\_generators/image.py, to address compatibility issues. The changes involved updating code to align with Python 3 standards and incorporating better Unicode support, showing a focus on code maintenance and ensuring project stability.
pytorchautoencoderdeep-learningmachine-translationreinforcement-learning
vthorsteinsson/Skrafl
Jul 2014 - Sep 2022
Skraflhjálp - DAWG-based Scrabble Helper
Contributions:3 releases, 173 commits, 3 PRs in 8 years 3 months
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