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Portland, OR, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Working in the Treasury Pod. Accounting and Payments.Also manage our data-infrastructure and support team-members on data-intensive projects.

Seattle, Washington, US

Tech lead of the Data-Science Enablement team from inception. Architected and built a full ML-lifecycle system for a Series-A startup, enabling the Data Science team to go from 2 to 15+ deployed models within a few months.Lead development of our Azure-cloud infrastructure and DevOps tooling, including Kubernetes cluster upgrades, Airflow 2.0 migration.

Boston, MA, US

Lead the Wayfair’s Demand Forecasting from inception in January 2019.Built a team of Data Engineers and ML Engineers to partner with and accelerate Data Science work-streams, optimizing logistics and supply-chain efficiencies for Wayfair. Big-data technologies used included PySpark, Hive, Vertica.Models deployed, continually back-tested and supported in.

Amsterdam, NL

Developed full-stack high-performance applications integral to an in-house trading team competing as lead market-makers across a large range of financial derivative markets.Developed of our highly-performant Python-scripting platform (using IronPython), integral to trading-algo development for Options market-making. Gathered and prioritized asks from 80+.

London, England, GB

• Transact-SQL development, working with SQL Server in the Database Marketing sector. Database work varied widely including designing and building new systems from scratch, setting up new ETL processes using SSIS.
• Modified processes in production including live database refactoring in orderto improve design quality and adhere to chosen conventions.
• Wrote many different types of documentation with ambitions ranging across:training novices, design explanation, explicit definition of conventions.
• Implemented mocking and testing wherever possible in order to aiddevelopment blocks and improve robustness of the end solution.

Developed innovative real-time metrics as part of a team, using Python to measure the health of the Bitcoin network via proxy of block propagation times and double spend activity.Developed a Bitcoin price index in R satisfying multiple objectives including some unique to Bitcoin. Also modelled and predicted market volatility using the EGARCH model..

Exeter, GB

Produced insightful data analysis on user performance within an educational iPad maths app. Designed metrics analysing technical issues, student progression and app obtained by performing intensive operations in R.A separate project involved programming a multiplayer maths game on Sifteo cubes in C++, which included working with a new API from scratch.

Exeter, GB

Used R to build mathematical performance models capable of outperforming the sports betting markets for snooker and road-cycling, using ideas taken directly from academic research.Projects included web-scraping in Python and Perl to obtain the test datasets for model evaluation and calibration.Other projects completed supplemented R functionality. One used.

I was trained to deal poker tournaments, requiring good hand-eye coordination as well as quick mental arithmetic. Responsibilities included handling both money and customers in a transparent and trustworthy manner. The largest tournament I dealt in had a £10k prize pool.

I worked in the Applied Games section, where work was being done on Artificial Intelligence in board/video games. I learnt a new programming language F# and programmed a small Blackjack program.

GB

I worked in a team producing reports in economics research. I used Excel to analyse health data and build visualisations that identified key trends required to advise on the development of a more cost effective health system.

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Mathematics And Computer Science

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