Thomas Hjelde Thoresen
Senior Software Engineer · Vespa.ai · 3.2K followers · LinkedIn benchmark, last 12 months (original)
Vespa.ai company report →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)
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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…
View post → - 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 …
View post → - 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…
View post → - 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
View post → - 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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