Tor Vekterli
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Vespa.ai
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolTor Vekterli is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Trondheim, Norway, with a decade of experience building large-scale distributed search and storage systems. He spent over a decade at Yahoo! driving data distribution and cloud elasticity services before joining Vespa.ai to focus on scalable search infrastructure. Tor combines deep C++ and Java systems expertise with leadership in technical architecture and data distribution for elastic platforms. His MSc in Artificial Intelligence from NTNU underpins a methodical, research-informed approach to designing resilient systems. Known for tackling the hardest parts of storage and search at scale, he brings both hands-on coding and cross-team technical leadership to production-critical services. Outside core duties, he has a track record of shipping practical solutions that bridge academic AI concepts with industrial-grade distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (24)
vector-search10
search-engine10
intrinsics10
big-data10
machine-learning10
vector-database10
vespa10
java10
vector10
ai10
tensor10
server10
docker-image9
simd-library9
avx9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
vekterli/highway
Sep 2025 - Jan 2026
Performance-portable, length-agnostic SIMD with runtime dispatch
Contributions:19 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
vespa-engine/vespa-3rdparty-deps
Dec 2020 - Jun 2026
Vespa 3rd-party dependencies
Contributions:13 reviews, 34 PRs, 18 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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