Summary
Phillip Souza is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Manchester with nine years' experience leading data teams to rapidly prototype and integrate data applications with mainframe and enterprise products. At UNICOM Global he shapes data strategy and roadmaps, deploys on‑prem large language models for private code autocomplete and agent-driven document automation, and built LLM agents that generate complex SQL-based infrastructure reports used by the DoD. He has a track record of cutting data enrichment and preprocessing time by ~80% through generative enrichment and automation, and routinely marries R&D across cloud vendors and open-source tooling to production systems. Also an active freelancer, Phillip combines hands-on model deployment with mentorship and cross-team evangelism to drive data-centric digital transformation.
9 years of coding experience