Hello! My name is Rick Deininger and I am the newest member of the technical support team at Diffbot. I began working with computers when I was very little. However, as I grew up, I had less access to computers so I was not able to pursue those interests as much. After graduating high school, […]
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Welcome Joone Hur – Software Engineer
Hello everyone! My name is Joone, and I am a new Software Engineer at Diffbot where I own the renderability and performance of the rendering farm here. For many years, I worked on web engines such as Gecko, WebKit and Chromium at Samsung and Intel Open Source Technology Center. Currently, I am pursuing a new adventure with […]
Welcome Dimitris Kontokostas – Software Engineer
Hello there! I am Dimitris, and I am a new Software Engineer at Diffbot! As the name implies, I am Greek. In particular, I am from the northern part of the mainland (far away from the beautiful beaches). I hold a degree in Electronics & Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, a MSc in Web Science from Aristotle University […]
Welcome Julia Wiedmann – Machine Learning Engineer (Research)
Hi there! My name is Julia and I am a Machine Learning Research Engineer at Diffbot. Born and raised in Vienna, Austria, I moved to London to study Business. While I enjoyed my degree, I realized I was much more interested in technology, so I taught myself enough coding and math to qualify for […]
Welcome Lorenzo Torres – Technical Sourcer
I received my Bachelor’s Degree from University of Southern California (Fight On!) and then became a food truck driver and manager for a waffle dessert company in Pasadena, CA called Waffles de Liege. After 3 years, I felt that I wasn’t doing anything fulfilling and realized that I wanted to make an impact and difference […]
Welcome Paramita Mirza – Machine Learning Engineer Intern
Hello there! I’m Paramita (sounds similar to ‘parameter’) and I’m excited to be part of the Relation Extraction research team at Diffbot. I received my PhD degree from the University of Trento/FBK-ICT in spring 2016. Under the supervision of Sara Tonelli, my PhD research focused on extracting temporal and causal relations between events from […]