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PhD · Astrophysicist → Data Scientist → Engineering Leader
Lead Developer and AI Engineer for Defined Benefit Solutions at Just Group, leading a team building platforms for defined benefit pension administration, and many other things. Before this: data scientist at OceanMind, a not-for-profit using satellite imagery and AIS vessel tracking to detect illegal fishing and labour exploitation at sea. Before that: a postdoc, and before that a PhD in astrophysics.
The connecting thread in my work is finding structure in messy data that matters — whether that's stellar spectra, fishing vessel behaviour, or the movement history of a pension scheme member.
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Lead Developer & AI Engineer · Just Group
Grew the engineering function from scratch.
Building Reef: bitemporal pension admin platform.
FastAPI · Next.js · Azure SQL · AKS
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Data Scientist · OceanMind (not-for-profit)
Satellite imagery + AIS vessel tracking.
Detecting illegal fishing & labour exploitation at sea.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Spectroscopic surveys of stellar populations in the Milky Way.
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PhD Astrophysics
🍴 GrubVote is my current side project - a streamlined app that gets groups organised for amazing food.
Alongside that: a Team Topologies restructure of the DB engineering team, a self-hosted OpenClaw AI assistant on a Hetzner VPS integrated with Home Assistant, and the usual pile of side projects that seem like good ideas at 1AM...
Based in North Wales. Reasonable espresso, sourdough - the usual. Working up to running in the mountains (bit slow). Interested in AI consciousness in a way that occasionally spills into actual reading rather than just opinions.
"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden." — The Road, Cormac McCarthy