Alex Allan
Co-founder & CTO at Kortical
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Allan is a PhD-trained data scientist and co-founder & CTO with 13 years of experience building production-grade AI systems and automated machine learning platforms. Since 2016 he has led Kortical’s engineering and product direction, creating a high-level language for AutoML that powers mission-critical deployments for the NHS, Big Four consultancies and major banks. His research background in non-Euclidean representations for latency estimation (PhD, University of Reading) informs a pragmatic approach to embedding advanced math into scalable products that cut time, cost and risk of AI production by orders of magnitude. He previously scaled commercial machine learning products as Chief Data Officer at Datamind and brings end-to-end experience from early software engineering roles through to executive leadership. Based in London, Alex combines academic rigor—three best-paper awards among his conference publications—with proven startup execution and an unusual focus on making AI tooling both configurable for experts and automated for broad teams.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Data Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Data Science at University of Reading
Github Skills (21)
r7
gpu5
data-mining5
sublime-text5
python5
classification5
kaggle5
data-science4
machine-learning4
java4
cuda4
cpp3
decision-tree3
coreml3
javafx3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alexallan/PomodoroDesktop
May 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:24 commits in 3 months
pomodoroui-libraryjavafxdesktopjava
alexallan/lumar_rnd
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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