Thomas Dimson

Thomas Dimson is a software engineer at Instagram. He holds a BA in applied mathematics and computer science with a pure mathematics minor, and a MSCS from Stanford with a focus on artificial intelligence. After internships at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Bloomberg L.P., and Amazon, Thomas joined Amazon full time to work on data mining for Kindle. In mid-2012, Dimson started his Master’s at Stanford, where he met Alex Karpenko and his brother, who had started the company Luma. Dimson joined Luma part-time while pursuing his Masters, and shortly after Luma was acquired by Instagram, Dimson developed Hyperlapse. He finished his Masters in June 2014 and started working at Instagram full time, where he now works on the data team.