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Los Angeles, California, US

Developing a new business idea in predictive infrastructure management.

London, England, GB

London, Greater London, GB

London, England, GB

Early stage technology businesses, primarily in data infrastructure, analytics and AI. Drop me a line if you have an interesting business you'd like to pitch.

Ad hoc consultancy work, including data science and technical due diligence.

London, England, GB

Twyn is a 4 year old start up that has created software, a platform and process to deliver an experience that we call “interactive You Tube”. This allows us to scale people in an authentic,emotionally connecting, “deep real” way such that they can have 100 million simultaneous, one on one, real time, conversational interactions. See https://www.mytwyn.com/.

London, GB

London, England, GB

London, England, GB

Nested.com is a London based start-up removing friction from the residential property market through an innovative product which provides the customer with an advance against the sale of their existing property, allowing them to proceed immediately as a chain-free buyer for their next home.As CTO I established the software engineering, product management.

London, GB

London, London, GB

This was an extension of my previous responsibilities to cover the whole of the newly created New Publishing Platforms team, tasked with the creation of a modern, dynamic publishing platform to replace a number of legacy systems. As well agile, iterative development of the application tier in Ruby on Rails, we were responsible for the Content Hub, a.

London, Greater London, GB

In this role I was responsible for a ten person team of developers, mostly working with Ruby on Rails, who contributed to the ongoing development of the Macmillan publishing platform, supporting the Nature family of academic journals as well as a number of other titles. I was also involved in architectural decision making and software development strategy.

Hoxton, London, GB

My final major project at Songkick was the establishment of a dedicated data science team, whose remit was to provide advanced data collection, processing and reporting capabilities across the company. This played an important role in business and product development, as well as enabling new product features which made direct use of large scale data.

Hoxton, London, GB

As Songkick grew I made a transition from team leadership to focus more on technology strategy. During this period the Songkick engineering team embarked on a successful project to transition to a service oriented architecture as a means to address technical debt and improve productivity. We also moved further towards continuous delivery, ultimately.

Hoxton, London, GB

I joined Songkick shortly after the company was founded, initially as a developer helping to put together the original prototype version of the site, and eventually taking on more of a leadership role as the company's initial CTO. In this role I was responsible for software development and technical operations during the first phase of Songkick's growth.

Cambridge, England, GB

Primarily as lead developer of Dasher, a novel predictive text entry system.

Redmond, Washington, US

Research on search ranking using language modelling.

Phd, Computer Science / Machine Learning

Ba/Msci, Natural Sciences (Experimental And Theoretical Physics)