Alan Patterson Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

London, GB

At BeyondMath we are building the first Foundational AI Model of Physics and using this to transform how we do engineering and design.

Chicago, Illinois, US

HomeX is a radically better home services platform combining world-class technology and next-generation service operations. We are reshaping the experience for both consumers and businesses in the trillion-dollar home services industry. We recently raised $90M in a funding round led by New Mountain Capital. Read our Techcrunch article.I Lead our applied.

Chicago, Illinois, US

As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, I'm heading up our applied science team in Cambridge, UK. We are developing conversational diagnostics using machine learning, NLP, knowledge graphs, reasoning and machine perception.

San Jose, CA, US

Part of the Senior Technical Leadership team at eBay. Leading a new AI focused team in eBay's Structured Data division.Building a Product Knowledge Graph and AI to support eBay's product understanding and Machine Learning efforts across the company.Appeared on Panel at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2018) on Enterprise Scale Knowledge Graphs.

Mountain View, CA, US

Led a team of engineers to develop the technology to protect Google's display advertising against fraud, specialising in the application of machine learning to fraud detection.Worked with Google's Deep Learning Tensorflow team.Taught a ML course to Google engineers.

Mountain View, CA, US

Joined Google as part of their acquisition of spider.io.Working on protecting display advertising against fraud.Google-scale data analysis and development.Deep learning applications using tensorflow.

• Acquired by Google.spider.io identified fraudulent activity across display and video advertising, including botnet traffic, ad hiding and click-jacking.
• Clustering, feature extraction and pattern recognition to identify ad requests from hijacked PCs.
• Hadoop, Hive and python on distributed machine learning algorithm development.
• Helped identify 13 distinct ad-fraud botnets.

New York, NY, US

• Worked on their FX Trading Platform development - a new high profile project for trade-capture and deal flow.
• C++/Unix Sybase. Distributed server development.
• Architectural design for new trade capture system. Phase 1 implementation.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

• Acquired by Amazon. Now forms Q&A service of Amazon Alexa.Evi Technologies (formerly known as True Knowledge) was a startup company that has built a question answering internet service using its own semantic knowledge.
• Recruited and led platform team,
• Designed and developed the new mobile platform for their new Evi product.
• Delivered high performance, low latency improvements to reach large search SLA response times.
• Oversaw traffic growth from zero to over 8 million unique users per month.
• Worked on overall product architecture and design.

London, England, GB

• Betfair is the world’s largest betting exchange.Architect and Lead Developer for the company's online gaming servers. Focused on increasing availability, performance and capacity through a more modular and scalable.
• Architect for gaming platform - approved designs and investigated grid based scalable architectures (e.g. Oracle Coherence).
• Transformed legacy system through diligent application of design patterns as an enabler for future development, testability and maintenance.
• C++/Boost development of high performance asynchronous network layer to increase capacity and reliability.
• Recruited new members of C++ team, mentored on modern C++ software techniques.
• Proved a reliable trouble shooter, working well under pressure.

GB

• Oxford BioSignals is a startup company created to exploit research carried out at Oxford University. Their technology is based on neural network statistical pattern recognition and visualisation of multi-parameter.
• Delivered BioSign product, winner of the IET 2006 innovation award for IT.
• Worked on statistical pattern recognition based on HMMs, Neural Networks, Bayesian data analysis, data fusion and visualization.
• Recruited development team, specified design and requirements, managed the development and delivery of BioSign.
• C++, C# and.Net, Data management in SQLServer database.
• Updated the company's Quality Procedures to extend our certification of ISO9001 and ISO13485 to include TickIT.

• Imerge make audio-visual server products based on their XiVA platform for the consumer market.
• C/C++/UML software development on Linux for several components of XiVA. Developed a new network manager component for handling the server’s internet connections.

• Nexan is a small startup company dedicated to making multi-parameter, vital signs monitoring equipment. Their product is used for monitoring heart failure patients with sleep-disordered breathing.
• Data analysis and algorithm design for multi-parameter pattern recognition & classification. ECG, Respiration and blood oxygen signal analysis.
• Designed and implemented signal pattern recognition software for patient monitoring and achieved FDA certification.
• Developed a fast, streaming, signal processing framework in C++/STL on Linux, ported to Windows NT and WinCE.
• Team lead for a number of PhD developers and researchers with responsibility for software and algorithm development.

• Software Engineer in Nokia's Fixed Networking division.
• C++ design and development of real-time embedded software for a SDH Telecoms multiplexor (OSE RTOS target, development on Solaris).
• Developed several new components of the system as well as achieving fixes for several critical bugs found in the software.
• Good experience of working in a large commercial, quality controlled (CMM) software environment.

Dphil, Electronics

1St Hons, Electrical & Electronic Eng