https://www.descentai.dev/

Machine Learning consultancy to WeShape clients.

First MLOPs hire into FTSE-100 organisation with view to operationalize machine learning across organisation.Nominated for an award in 2024 in recognition of technical contributions to the applied machine learning area. Metadata driven pipelines to deploy and schedule data scientist artefacts across organisation.Framework for e2e model training, inference, monitoring and retraining.

Lead MLOPs initialization at Dunelm. Responsibilities included architecture, projectscoping, and technology implementation via lambda, sagemaker, spark and AWS/Terraform.Mentorship: Dunelm hired 3 junior engineers from code-first girls. Acted as a point of call fortraining exercise and helped them with exercises and getting assimilated into teams.Interviewed candidates for Data Engineering and SDET positions.E2E data pipelines created covering ingestion from source to Snowflake. Covered batch,streaming and API ingestion technologies.

Strong performance led to promotion after 5 months.January 2021: Strong performance and interest in Data Science led to a new role at theintersection between data science and data engineering. Worked as sole engineer in data science squad. Developed and productionize a feature and model calculator that tested, deployed and orchestrated SQL to calculate statistics such as average store spend per day.Automatic on-call person for PII related production incidents and one of few in business with automated approval to production PII AWS accounts.

Python applications to orchestrate deployments to all environments.Experience as on-call DevOps engineer for networking, infrastructure & release based issues.Developed software for allocation of loyalty points to sports betting customers across US states.Worked with Caesars directly on implementation.

Non technical positions before transitioning to software engineer.April 2016 -> July 2017Working as contractor within events industry. Generated over $230k for clients and expanded contractor business by hiring subcontractor.June 2015 -> April 2016Travelling around Asia and South America. Taught english at SENA, Armenia for 6 months. Feb 2013 -> June 2015P&L responsibility for $2.5 million at Innovation Enterprise (sold to Argyle).