Aaron Le Compte is a Principal Data Scientist and Data Science Manager based in Melbourne with over a decade of hands-on industry experience and more than 20 years across research and applied AI. He founded and scaled MYOB’s Data Science function, shaping enterprise-wide Data & AI strategy and delivering customer-facing AI products that cut costs, automated workflows, and established MYOB as an authoritative voice on SME conditions. Comfortable straddling research and product delivery, he has deployed real-time recommendation, NLP and agent-based automation systems for large user bases and healthcare platforms, and previously led clinically deployed biomedical control systems from his PhD work. He combines technical depth in ML engineering (TensorFlow, ONNX, Snowflake, DBT) with a track record of hiring, governance and company-wide data literacy initiatives for 500+ staff. Notably, his career bridges startup founding and academic research, giving him a rare mix of entrepreneurial grit and rigorously validated, regulated-system experience.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering at University of Canterbury
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Aaron Le Compte - Principal Data Scientist Data Science Manager