I'm Sofie. I am a Software Engineer who just loves coding, debugging, documenting, testing, nitpicking and fine-tuning. I prefer code to be sufficiently robust and modular, and I care a great deal about user experience (UX) and quality assurance (QA). I always love to do the simple thing first 🛖, then build up the complexity as required 🏛️.
I'm passionate about open-source 🐍. I'm currently (since Oct 2025) helping out with maintenance of nanochat and I've been involved with maintaining Typer and FastAPI since 2024. In the past, I've written open-source software back at Uni, and in 2019-2023 I've been a core maintainer of the NLP library spaCy, its deep learning library Thinc, and various other repo's in the same 💥 ecosystem. An interview with Once a Maintainer about my journey into open-source can be found here.
I have a PhD in Natural Language Processing (NLP) 🎓 and I've been working in NLP and ML ever since my Master's back in 2007. I run a one-woman company called OxyKodit to implement tailored solutions for a variety of businesses and domains - because who wouldn't benefit from NLP in their company? I find it extremely satisfying to dive into a client's business context and NLP needs, and to come up with a solution that will bring actual real-world value to them 🤓.
Shoot me an email if you'd like to work together!