2026-06-07 –, Board Room- Unconference Track
Birds of a feather to share what’s working well for us to do the best Python engineering and datascience that we can, while leading the way for our teams.
I am a Senior Software Engineer & AI Specialist at DRW, a proprietary trading firm. I was previously the lead AI developer at Qualis Flow, a company that is using the latest AI tech to help decarbonise the construction industry.
I am also the CTO of NeuroGrid Ltd., a software consultancy firm providing data science and software engineering services. Previously I was the CoFounder of AgileVentures, where I was the CTO and ran multiple open source charity projects in Ruby, Node, React, ReactNative etc..
Before that I was Head of Education and Engineering at the Makers Academy bootcamp, and before that Associate Professor in Computer Science at Hawaii Pacific University, where I taught courses on mobile, games, AI and software engineering, remotely from the UK.
I've been mucking about with computers for over 40 years, starting with early attempts to program games in basic on the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum in the 80s. I studied AstroPhysics, then Cognitive Science and then Computer Science at university, picking up a PhD (building Neural Nets in C and C++) and two masters along the way. I researched mobile agents at Toshiba in Japan (Java) then went freelance for two years (writing tech articles and building the NeuroGrid search engine, and working with the Cerego learning engine - lots of SQL). After that it was researching Peer to Peer at University of Tokyo, and then to University of Hawaii where I was working with collaborative systems, augmented reality and started programming in both PHP and Ruby/Rails.
I taught Computer Science for Hawaii Pacific University remotely from the UK (Software Engineering, Computer Games programming) for five years, during which time I got involved in MOOCs (I co-ran the "Agile Development using Ruby on Rails" course on edX with UCBerkeley) and started AgileVentures, taking it to full UK charity status. I also ran the MakersAcademy coding bootcamp in London for a couple of years, and am now focused on providing AI, data science and software engineering consulting services.
Education:
PhD in Neural Networks
MS in Computer Science
MSc in Cognitive Science & Natural Language
BSc in Physics with AstroPhysics