Splash In A Pond

Splash In A Pond Ltd

I have many years experience of designing, researching, developing and running innovative, scalable and reliable systems. I have over 10 years working as a data scientist with team lead, project
management and technical product leadership experience across multiple domains.
 
Core Personal Tool-set:
  • Python in notebooks, scripts and production services.
  • SQL, Scala, and Java.
  • Quality and efficient code using git, dvc, uv, pytest, ruff, types, profiling etc.
  • Data science: processing using NumPy, Pandas, and pySpark.
  • Full life-cycle machine learning with Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, etc.
  • LLM and RAG models: GPT, Claude, LangChain, SpaCy, BERT, BART.
  • Geographic systems including: Open Street Map, PostGIS, Shapely and GeoPandas.
  • Natural language models: traditional classifiers, embeddings, LLMs.
  • Production: FastAPI, Streamlit, Dash, Django, AWS Batch, Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Data storage with PostgreSQL, ORMs, Athena, ElasticSearch.
  • *NIX Operating Systems and AWS services.
  • Agile working and team leading with tools including Kanban, Trello, and JIRA.
  • User interviews, observation, metrics and A/B tests to refine requirements / tuning.
  • Requirements and feasibility analysis, aligning to business and customer needs.
  • Presentation to technical and non-technical audiences, including customers and SLT.