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David VonThenen

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Senior AI/ML Engineer - Office of the CTO at NetApp
📍 Long Beach, California, United States

David vonThenen is a Senior AI/ML Engineer in NetApps Office of the CTO, focused on shaping the companys AI strategy. An alumnus of UC Irvine, he specializes in building production-grade AI systems on cloud-native architectures. People who have worked with him describe him as a "thought-leader" and "forward thinker".

He is a co-inventor on several patents, including a method for enabling read-write access within a read-only environment.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Senior AI/ML Engineer - Office of the CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Long Beach, California, United States
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Agentic AI
He researches and presents workshops on multi-agent systems and advanced search techniques, aiming to transform the future of intelligent search.
Edge AI & TinyML
He speaks at industry conferences about deploying AI at the edge, bridging the gap between traditional AI workflows and the world of TinyML.
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Career

Work history

5-2025
Senior AI/ML Engineer - Office of the CTO
NetApp
11-2024 - 5-2025
Senior AI/ML Engineer / DevRel
DigitalOcean
10-2023 - 11-2024
AI Engineer / DevRel
Deepgram
8-2022 - 10-2023
Principle Developer Advocate, AI/ML
Symbl.ai
10-2010 - 7-2022
Developer Advocate/Software Engineer, Cloud Native Business Unit
VMware
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Education
Chemistry
UC Irvine
Computer Science
UC Irvine
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