Lead Big Data Architect & Agriculture Business Lead
Cambridge, United Kingdom
I grew the data science capability of PA's Technology Group as their Lead Big Data Architect. I guided my development teams and those of others to build new systems - specialising in real-time data analytics and image processing systems. This work grew to become a large portion of our group’s revenue.I also grew their new Digital Agriculture business from scratch - leading teams to find the best market fit within PA’s existing skills by constantly iterating and testing the market.My work spanned the pharmaceutical, defense and agriculture sectors.Day-to-day, I oversaw the architecture and software development of big data and fast data processing pipelines for PA's clients. This included leading the software development for a multi-million pound, high-speed computer vision system.When not writing code or managing technical projects, I spent about half my time building new business for PA, representing PA in TV interviews, through comments in the written media and talking at events.Check out our Digital Agriculture report! https://www.paconsulting.com/insights/2018/digitalagriculture/Software skills:- C++, Spark, Scala and some Python- Image/video/data processing tools: e.g. MIL, OpenCV, pandas, Spark ML- Graph databases and more traditional data storage: e.g. Neo4j, TinkerPop, Kafka, Accumulo, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ