Stuart Mackie - Data Scientist | Freelance, Consulting, Contracting

Stuart Mackie - PhD-qualified industry-experienced Data Scientist. Specialised in Search Engines, Recommender Systems, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Large Language Models, and Generative AI. What can I help you with? → Search Engines The design, implementation, and evaluation of state-of-the-art search experiences that deliver relevant results - using Lucene, Solr, Elasticsearch and OpenSearch. → Recommender Systems The design, implementation, and evaluation of state-of-the-art recommendation systems that connect customers with your content or e-commerce products. → Text-based NLP Natural language processing for text - summarisation, named entity recognition & linking, text classification, text clustering, topic modelling, knowledge bases & graphs. → Machine Learning Developing and evaluating production-ready ML solutions using scikit-learn and XGBoost - wrapped in FastAPI end-points using Docker. → Large Language Models Get effective results from LLMs via prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and task-specific fine-tuning. → Generative AI Developing and deploying GenAI apps and agentic workflows using cloud-hosted APIs and self-hosted open source models. → MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kibana Get expert help defining schemas, building ETL data pipelines to index large volumes of documents, effectively querying your data using traditional lexical search and state-of-the-art vector search - and designing data analytics dashboards that illustrate compelling narratives to your stakeholders. 3 flexible engagement options to suit your needs: ✅ Freelance project work for actionable business solutions. ✅ Pay-as-you-go micro-consulting for expert advice. ✅ Contracting on-site (Glasgow), hybrid (Edinburgh), or remote (UK-wide). Foobar Ltd is a company registered in Scotland with Company Number SC805802 - Clyde Offices, 2nd Floor, 48 West George Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom, G2 1BP.