Fredrik Linåker

About Fredrik Linåker

Leading data science teams in America\'s largest digital and print publisher, extracting business value from the latest machine learning capabilities. This involves LLM and GenAI models, RAG, multi-modal embeddings, vector databases, working with millions of high quality first party articles, images and video. Work impacts user engagement in terms of recommendations and guiding content investments, as well as productivity improvements.

Experience

1. Vice President of Data Science

   People Inc.

   Mar 2025 — Present

   Leading teams that build and run ML models that tailor content to web and app audiences on brands like People, Entertainment Weekly, InStyle, Byrdie, Allrecipes, Investopedia, and many more. We deliver productivity improvements, run detection of newsworthy topics, retain users thru recirculation optimization (industry term for Read Next recommendations), structure and encode content and users with embeddings and vector databases for matchmaking, and power our rapidly growing next-generation ad targeting engine D/Cipher+.(Note that People Inc. changed its name from Dotdash Meredith on July 31, 2025.)

Education

• University of Skövde

  Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science

  1996 — 1997

• University of Skövde

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science

  1993 — 1996

• The University of Sheffield

  PhD, Artificial Intelligence (Computer Science)

  1999 — 2003

Skills

• Java
• Android Development
• Uml
• Software Development
• Python
• Scrum
• Latex
• Xml
• Rest
• Computer Vision
• System Architecture
• Trac
• Amazon Ec2
• Agile Methodologies
• Unix
• Artificial Intelligence
• L10n
• Sql
• Linux
• Postgresql
• Machine Learning
• Amqp
• Databases
• Bash
• Eclipse
• Git
• Web Services
• Subversion
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems
• Rabbitmq
• Algorithms
• Jenkins
• C
• Programming
• Software Engineering
• Redis
• I18n
• Software Design
• Data Mining