# Tom Wallenstein

> Senior Software Engineer @ You.com

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tomwallenstein

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ You.com
Jan 2023 – Present
- Platform Team Lead
- Own foundational backend services (billing, authentication, permissions, rate limiting, etc.) and maintain product systems including chat history and custom AI agent services

### Software Engineer @ You.com
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Developed interface and several backend components for YouChat, first productionized chat-search assistant with citations and access to real-time web data

### Software Engineer Intern @ You.com
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Research Assistant at Yale's Social Robotics Lab @ Yale University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Designed and ran a two-week-long in-home study with more than 30 participants investigating how a robot’s presence influences participant’s exercise behavior
- Engineered a system for classifying movement patterns for fitness exercises with an accuracy of 87% by separating incoming data into repetitions and extracting relevant features for a time series classifier

### Research Assistant at Yale's Krishnaswamy Lab @ Yale University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Developed autoencoder using PyTorch that outperforms standard neuroscience methods on multiple classification and translation tasks by 5% on average by applying novel architecture features to extract and capture useful information from multi-subject fMRI data

### Data Science Intern - Reinforcement Learning @ Deutsche Bahn
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Berlin, Germany
- Built a computer simulation to model train movements in the greater Hamburg area (Germany) realistically based on historical track plan data
- Trained a reinforcement learning agent on the computer simulation to improve train punctuality by optimizing train dispatching

### Research Assistant at Yale's Social Robotics Lab @ Yale University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New Haven
- Helped running an experiment investigating group collaboration and the interactions between humans and robots
- Created algorithms to analyze recorded data for backchannel cues / focused on the detection of behavioral signals like gaze and head nods
- Responsible for synchronized visual recordings of participants in ROS

### Software Developer @ Umbrella Software Development GmbH
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Leipzig Area, Germany
- Developed a digital training exercise in C# with Unity to measure and evaluate the cognitive-technical skills of soccer players 
- Brainstormed ideas for a SoccerBot360 exercise for goalkeepers, collected video footage beneficial for useful visual demonstration purposes 
- Built English website for the company


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Yale University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tom-wallenstein
- Website: https://tomwallenstein.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-20