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Thomas Hjelde Thoresen

Senior Software Engineer · Vespa.ai · 3.2K followers · LinkedIn benchmark, last 12 months (original)

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data through 2026-08-21

Report card vs prior 12 months

Avg eng/post

14

+8%

Median eng/post

10.5

+5%

Posts/wk

0.3

+50%

Total eng.

189

+11%

Trend (monthly — bars are posts, line is avg engagement per post)

Top categories

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Top posts

  • 2026-01-14 · Thomas Hjelde Thoresen · Industry Insight74 eng. (56 likes · 13 comments · 5 shares)

    - ran a bunch of experiments - wrote a blog post - vibe coded a frontend might be useful to anyone interested in attractive tradeoffs when d…

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  • 2025-11-04 · Thomas Hjelde Thoresen · Hiring / Recruiting15 eng. (14 likes · 1 comments · 0 shares)

    Can't think of anyone better suited to help people build world class search, RAG and recsys with Vespa. Extremely happy that Abhishek T. is …

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  • 2026-04-29 · Thomas Hjelde Thoresen · Customer Highlight14 eng. (13 likes · 0 comments · 1 shares)

    One of the most underrated search features imho. Amazing work by Vinted team 🙌 - powered by Vespa.ai, of course. 🚀 I would be surprised to…

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  • 2026-05-29 · Thomas Hjelde Thoresen · Industry Insight13 eng. (9 likes · 4 comments · 0 shares)

    bm25 is a nice baseline, but can quite easily be imrpoved upon

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  • 2025-11-14 · Thomas Hjelde Thoresen · Industry Insight13 eng. (13 likes · 0 comments · 0 shares)

    Follow this guy if you want to learn one of the most valuable skills in tech - building a great and scalable search/recommendation engine!

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2025-09-30 → 2026-09-30 · Benchmark by Imagine AI · methodology at benchmark.imagineai.me/dashboard/methodology