Manu is a Senior Developer at Aboveit, a Norwegian consultancy company, and is also in the company management as Team Lead. Being a machine learning enthusiast since he watched The Terminator for the first time, he is also an AI Tech Lead.
With experience from various parts of the stack, Manu is currently part of a team responsible for development and distribution of timetable data for public transportation at Ruter. During his MSc studies at UCSB and the NTNU, he specialized in AI, with his thesis doing an extensive study on gender identification of authors using deep learning and natural language processing.
Day job aside, Manu has held both talks and workshops at several international conferences - he enjoys sharing knowledge. He has also developed an appreciation for the non-technological aspects of a near post-pandemic world, where staring at a wall and saving plants are not considered hobbies anymore.